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Loyola College. 



Historical Sketch 



OF 



Loyola College, Baltimore, 



1852-1902. 



A Memorial of the Golden Jubilee 
of Fifty Years of Existence. 

By Rev. John J. Ryan, S. J. 



Quum Campana matrona ornamenta sua oslentaret ei, Cornelia (raxil 
earn sermone quousque a schola redirent liberi; quos reversos exhibens, 
"En haec," inquit, "mea ornamenta."— Viri Romae. 

Her children [Alma Mater's] rose up and called her blessed. 

—Proverbs, 31 



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CONTENTS. 



Page 
List of Patronesses, • • ■ 5 

PART I. 
MEMORIAL AND RETROSPECT. 

i. Foundation of the College. Father Early, First Presi- 
dent; Father Clarke, Second. i852-'6o, . . 9 

A review of some of the Public Exercises of the 
College, and a glance at some of the Students, 
during the years i852-'6o, 21 

Reminiscences of an Old Student of the years 

i852-*54 37 

II. Presidential Terms of Fathers O'Callaghan and 
Ciampi — Second Term of Father Early. 1860- 
1870, 41 

III. Old Students during the decade i86o-'7o, . . -67 

IV. Reminiscences of an Old Student of the years 1856- 

1865, 73 

V. From Father Early's Final Departure to the End of 

Father Kelly's Presidential Term. i87o-'77, . . 81 

VI. Presidential Term of Father McGurk. i877-'85, . 89 
VII. Reminiscences of an Old Student of the years 1880- 

1887, 100 

VIII. Old Students during the decade i87o-'8o, . . .108 

IX. Presidential Term of Father Smith. i885-'9i, . . 115 

X. Old Students during the decade 1880 -'90, . . .124 

XI. Presidential Term of Father Morgan. 1891-1900, . 131 

XII. Administration of Father Brett — Father Quirk Eleventh 

President. igoo-'o2, 148 



CONTENTS. 

Page 

XIII. The Course given at the College — Its Nature and 

Value, 160 

XIV. Financial History of the College, . . . .168 

PART II. 
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 

Programme, 173 

Solemn Mass of Requiem, ....... 175 

Alumni Banquet, 177 

Father Boland's Address, 178 

Jubilee Poem, by Father Byrnes, S.J., .... 182 

Father Quirk's Address, ....... 1S5 

Guests and Subscribers, . . . . . . 188 

Academic Exercises, ........ 190 

Father Quirk's Address, ...... 190 

Jubilee Ode, by Mr. Isaac R. Baxley, A.B. ('6S), . . 194 

Father O'Hara's Address, 197 

Conferring of Honorary Degrees, 202 

Invited Guests, . 202 

Solemn Pontifical Mass, ........ 204 

Father Conway's Sermon, ...... 205 

Presentation of Macbeth, 223 

APPENDIX. 

List of Presidents, 227 

List of Prefects of Studies, 227 

Faculty, 229 

Foundations, . ■ 230 

Annual Registration, 232 

Students of Loyola who became Catholic Clergymen, . 233 

Alumni, 236 

Committees in charge of the Jubilee Celebratiou, . . 246 



THE FOLLOWING LADIES HAVE SUBSCRIBED 

AS PATRONESSES 

FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THIS VOLUME. 



Mrs. John W. Albaugh, 
Mrs. Frederick B. Beacham, 
The Misses Bogue, 
Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, 
Mrs. Daniel Boone, 
The Misses Boone, 
Miss Annie Brady, 
Mrs. James H. Brady, 
Mrs. Matthew S. Brenan, 
Mrs. Joseph M. Brown, 
Mrs. William Paul Brown, 
The Misses Cadogan, 
Miss Alice E. Cameron, 
Mrs. Thomas G. Carroll, 
Miss Mary C. Clare, 
Mrs. Henry Clark, 
Mrs. A. H. Colmary, 
Mrs. Mary M. Connell, 
Mrs. William P. Cummings, 
Mrs. William J. Donnelly, 
Mrs. W. Bernard Duke, 
Mrs. Charles E. Egan, 
Mrs. John Walter Fairley, 
Mrs. J. Austin Fink, 
Mrs. Henry Ford, 
Mrs. Octavia W. Forman, 



Mrs. William H. Gahan, 

SeSora de Garza Galan, 

Mrs. Edgar H. Gans, 

Mrs. William Gatchell, 

Mrs. Mary R. Getz, 

Mrs. J. Thomas Gibbons, 

Mrs. Margaret J. Gillies, 

Mrs. Otto Goldbach, 

Miss Ida Griffiss, 

Miss Mary Kuhn Harris, 

Mrs. Thomas Hedian, 

Miss Corita Hedian, 

Mrs. Charles W. Heuisler, 

Miss Clemence M. Homer, 

Mrs. Francis T. Homer, 

Miss M. Loretto Hunter, 

Mrs. Felix Jenkins, 

Mrs. George C. Jenkins, 

Miss Mary Adelaide Jenkins, 

Mrs. Michael Jenkins, 

The Misses Jenkins, 

Miss Margaret P. Keenan, 

Mrs. Christopher Kelly, 

Miss Mary Kelly, 

Miss Mary E. Kennedy, 

Mrs. C D. Kenny, 



PATRONESSES. 



Miss Annie Hoddohan, 
Mrs. A. Leo Knoit, 
Mrs. Wiuiam Lanahan, 
Mrs. Chas. O'Donnedd LEE, 
Miss Helen Linhard, 
Mrs. John M. Littig, 
Miss Virginia S. Mactavish, 
Mrs. Edward P. McDevitt, 
The Misses McDonneu, 
Mrs. Widdiam McEdroy, 
Mrs. John F. McGraw, 
Mrs. Stocks Middar, 
Mrs. Decatur H. Midler, 
Mrs. George Thomas Midds, 
Miss Dora Monmonier, 
The Misses Murphy, 
The Misses Myers, 
Mrs. L. Ernest Neade, 
Mrs.Wildiam J. O'Brien, Jr., 
Mrs. Thomas O'Neidd, 
The Misses Passano, 
Mrs. Chas. H. Pendergast, 
Miss Mary Randadd, 
Mrs. Chardes h. reeves, 
Miss Mary M. Reisinger, 



Mrs. Chardes B. Roberts, Jr., 

Miss Minna S. Roby, 

Miss E. C. Sappington, 

Miss Mary L. Schoolfiedd, 

Miss Mary Butder Shearer, 

Mrs. C. C. Shriver, 

Mrs. Mark O. Shriver, 

Mrs. Thomas F. Shriver, 

Miss Mary J. Smith, 

Mrs. Widdiam H. V. Smith, 

The Misses Steuart, 

The Misses Tewes, 

Mrs. Edden M. Tormey, 

Mrs. Mary D. Wadsh, 

Mrs. Widdiam George Wedd, 

Miss Mary Whedan, 

Mrs. Thomas A. Whedan, 

Mrs. J. Arthur Wickham, 

Miss Widcox, 

Miss Emma Widcox, 

Mrs. Mary Widdoughby, 

Mrs. Louise Ewing Widson, 

Mrs. Richard C. Widson, 

Mrs. L. Bruce Wodcott, 

Mrs. Chardes S. Woodruff. 



Part I. 
MEMORIAL AND RETROSPECT. 



FOUNDATION OF THE COLLEGE. 



FATHER EARLY, FIRST PRESIDENT. 
FATHER CLARKE, SECOND PRESIDENT. 
1832-60. 



Colleges are of prime utility and importance to the 
world. It has been said that men of college education 
rule the world; and this is true with a fair allowance for 
the exceptions that prove every rule. And the reason 
is plain. The world is ruled by mind, not by physical 
force: now, the end and aim of a college is to perfect the 
mind, to give it the higher training, to develop all its 
powers in the best manner. Hence, if the wedded pair 
who have completed fifty years in happy union, by a 
praiseworthy custom celebrate the event with solemnity 
and rejoicing; and if the same is considered right and 
just for any one who has borne himself faithfully and 
well through fifty years in any useful walk of life, so also 
eminently praiseworthy must be the custom that a col- 
lege, after fifty years of its exalted work, should cele- 
brate its Golden Jubilee with solemnity and rejoicing. 
Loyola College, Baltimore, will see fifty years complete 
of its existence in 1902; and it is for the celebration of 

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IO LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

its Golden Jubilee that this sketch of its history is 
prepared. 

Until the year 1852, St. Mary's Seminary on North 
Paca street, Baltimore, was not merely a seminary for 
the education of priests, but also a college where young 
men, boarders and day -scholars, were prepared for any of 
the intellectual avocations of the world. And there must 
have been good reason for this. In 1852, however, the 
Sulpitians resolved to discontinue St. Mary's College, 
which they had conducted for so many years with so 
much honor to themselves, and to confine their attention 
to the Seminary alone. A void was thus occasioned 
which the Society of Jesus was asked to fill. Accord- 
ingly, until a suitable building should be erected, two 
private houses were rented on Holliday street, one door 
from the theatre, and just back of the Odd-Fellows' 
Hall, on Gay street; and there, September 15th, 1852, 
Loyola College was opened, in order to give, according 
to the methods of the Jesuits, a complete collegiate edu- 
cation to young men, from the rudiments of English, 
Latin and Greek, Arithmetic, Geography and History, 
through Higher Grammar, Belles-Lettres, Rhetoric and 
Higher Mathematics to the year of Rational Philosophy 
and the Physical Sciences, ending in the bestowing of 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 

In April, 1853, the Legislature of Maryland, E. Louis 
Lowe being Governor, "created the Associated Profes- 
sors of Loyola College a body corporate, and vested 
them with the power to confer any degree or degrees in 
any of the faculties, arts and sciences and liberal profes- 
sions, which are usually permitted to be conferred in 
any Colleges or Universities in the United States of 
America." 




Rev. John Early, SJ. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. II 

The Rev. John Early, S.J., was the first President, 
assisted by Rev. James Ward, S. J., Rev. Samuel Lilly, 
S.J., and other Jesuit priests and scholastics. In that 
location the work of the College was pursued with ear- 
nestness for two years and a half. Meantime a piece of 
ground was procured on the southwest corner of Calvert 
and Madison streets for the erection of a college build- 
ing, at the side of which was to be built a church in 
which the Society of Jesus, which is an order of priests, 
might have a field for the exercise of the sacerdotal 
ministry. Old students and professors who had the ex- 
perience of both the old College and the new, have often 
spoken of the happy days passed on Holliday street, in 
spite of the inconveniences and hardships, thus proving 
again that the benign providence of the Lord always, 
amid difficult surroundings, liberally grants his more 
needed help. 

In February, 1855, the new College on Calvert street 
was completed; for it the old quarters were abandoned, 
and on Washington's birthday, February 22nd, 1855, 
the formal inaugural exercises took place before a 
distinguished audience in the small but handsome Hall 
of the College. The exercises consisted of pieces in 
prose and verse, English, Latin and French, spoken 
by the students, and were in two parts; the first on 
the life and character of Washington, and the second 
on the life and work of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 
founder of the Society of Jesus. Thus was most 
clearly intimated what the defenders of the Jesuits 
have so often declared, that in their education 
patriotism and religion go hand in hand. The new 
building was, in those days, a source of admiration 
to all who saw it. It was imposing in external ap- 



12 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

pearance, large and roomy within, yet not too large 
when it was considered that it was to be a college 
for the higher education of the youth of Baltimore, and 
the residence also of the professors and the pastors 
of the adjoining church. The house was bright and 
airy, well supplied with gas and water and other 
modern conveniences, but lacking everything sumpt- 
uous and luxurious; it had spotlessly clean, uncar- 
peted floors, glittering white, unpapered, undecorated 
walls, rooms furnished without superfluity. Here the 
same collegiate exercises were pursued day after day. 
The College sought to accomplish its mission of edu- 
cation and to win public approval, not by pretence or by 
encouraging idle boys to remain, but by requiring sub- 
stantial work from the students, such as the daily 
recitation of their lessons in the English, Latin and Greek 
Grammars, in the Latin and Greek classical authors, in 
Mathematics, History, Geography, Christian Doctrine, 
and the writing of an English Composition for the 
beginning of the week, and of a Latin or Greek Theme 
for the other days except the last, which was set apart 
for repetition of the week's lessons. In the highest class 
lectures were given on Rational Philosophy and the 
Natural Sciences; but an account of them was required 
from the students afterwards. Reports were sent regu- 
larly to parents in which they were candidly informed 
regarding the diligence and success of their sons. In the 
earlier years, among the students were two brothers, sons 
of an influential non-Catholic gentleman of Baltimore, one 
of whom was wasting his time and neglecting the oppor- 
tunities given him for self-improvement. His father 
was candidly informed of this in the report and advised 
in a friendly spirit to take him away. This open 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 3 

honesty, however, had an unexpected effect on the 
father, increased his esteem for the College, and con- 
firmed him in his wish to keep his son in attendance, no 
doubt after having given him a serious warning. 

The following is a sketch of the curriculum of the 
College about this time; and to the man of scholarly at- 
tainments it will be apparent how well suited it was for 
the higher training of all the powers of the mind of 
youth: 

THE JUNIOR OR PREPARATORY CLASSES. 

Rudiments, 2nd Class — English and Latin Gram- 
mars, Epitome Histories Sacra, by Lhomond, as Latin 
author; History of the Bible, Geography, Latin and 
English Exercises; Arithmetic, Penmanship. 

Rudiments, ist Class — Same studies continued, with 
Lhomond's De Viris lllnstribus Urbis Roma substituted 
for Epit. Hist. Sacra. 

Third Class of Humanities — Same studies con- 
tinued, with Greek Grammar; Nepos' Lives, Cicero's 
Letters and Phaedrus as Latin authors in place of Viri 
Roma; Graca Minora; History of the United States, 
Book-keeping. 

Second Humanities— English, Latin and Greek 
Grammars, which are continued in the advancing classes 
until mastered; Ouintus Curtius, Ovid's Metamorphoses; 
Graca Minora; Geography, Ancient History; Algebra. 
In the second term, Caesar in place of Curtius, and Ovid's 
Tristia optionally substituted for the Metamorphoses. 

THE SENIOR OR COLLEGIATE CLASSES. 

First Class of Humanities (Freshman) — Sallust, 
Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, Graca Minora or 



14 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Xenophon's Cyropcedia, Casserly's Latin Prosody, Myth- 
ology, Geography, Ancient History; precepts for Compo- 
sition, especially for the formation of epistolary style; 
instruction in the artifice of English and Latin Versifica- 
tion; Geometry. In the second term, Cicero de Senec- 
tute, de Amicitia in place of Sallust, and Virgil's ^Eneid 
instead of his minor poems. 

Class of Poetry (Sophomore) — Precepts of Rhetoric 
and Poetry, practice in writing English and Latin Verse, 
and committal to memory of specimens from approved 
authors; Ancient Geography and Ancient History; Trig- 
onometry and Analytical Geometry. In first term, Livy, 
Virgil's iEneid, Horace's Art of Poetry, Xenophon's 
Cyropcsdia, Theocritus. In second term, Cicero's Ora- 
tions, Horace's Odes, Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, 
Thucydides, Homer. 

Class of Rhetoric (Junior) — Precepts of Rhetoric 
with criticism of celebrated authors, Quintilian's 
Rhetoric, History of Literature; History of England; 
Analytical Geometry continued, Calculus. In the first 
term, Cicero's Orations, Horace's Satires and Epistles, 
Livy, Demosthenes, Homer. In the second term, 
Cicero's Orations, Juvenal and Persius, Tacitus, Demos- 
thenes and Sophocles. 

Class of Philosophy (Senior) — Logic, Metaphysics 
and Ethics from Latin text-books. Physics and Chem- 
istry. (In later years Astronomy, Geology and Physiol- 
ogy have been added, and Chemistry is completed before 
the final year). 

An hour of class every day was allotted to Mathematics 
all through the course, except in the final year; and three 
hours in the week were given to French during several 
years, or to Spanish or German instead, for special 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 5 

students. The catalogue remarks particularly, that 
through the course great attention was paid to Composi- 
tion, especially of English. 

The diaries of those early years of the College make 
frequent mention of the specimens in the various classes. 
A specimen was an exhibition given by a class before 
the President and members of the Faculty, of its pro- 
ficiency in its studies. It consisted of a repetition of 
some of the matter gone over in class in various lines, 
the reading of original compositions in prose and verse, 
declamation and the like exercises. A specimen in 
Rational Philosophy was a disputation, in which one 
student proved certain theses, and defended them against 
objections made by another; in Natural Science pro- 
ficiency was shown by lectures, sometimes illustrated by 
experiments, and by explanations on various points of 
science given in response to questions. 

In the scholastic year i856-'57, a unique specimen 
was given by the first and second classes of Humanities. 
A challenge passed between them witb the approval of 
both professors, to be examined in the whole of the Latin 
Grammar (Ruddiman's), and in the Greek Grammar as 
far as Syntax. After a certain number of weeks allowed 
for preparation the day of contest arrived, and Father 
Early and other members of the Faculty came to the 
scene. The students themselves were examiners as well 
as examined, being pitted against each other in pairs, of 
whom one questioned the other as severely as he desired, 
and then submitted to being questioned by him. At the 
next monthly Reading of the Marks of Merit, three or 
four neat books were awarded to the best of the con- 
testants; from which it was seen that the lower class had 
been clearly victorious, though the other was not 
without honor. 



1 6 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

After a few years a momentous event in the history of 
the College took place — the removal of its first President 
and the installment of his successor. In the autumn of 
1858, Rev. John Early, S.J., who now many years after 
his death, is still remembered by not a few sincere 
friends in Baltimore, was appointed President of George- 
town College, an older and more important institution, 
which he governed with much prudence during the try- 
ing times of the Civil War and the years immediately 
preceding and following it. During his past term of 
office at Loyola, nearly every year there was a class to 
receive the degree of A.B., in course; and the degree of 
A.M. was conferred on a considerable number of 
gentlemen. 

The first member of the faculty to die was Rev. 
Samuel Lilly, S.J. During the first two years of the 
College he was assistant superior, treasurer, and Pro- 
fessor of Higher Arithmetic and Book-keeping. He 
said Mass in the Cathedral on Sunday, November 
1 2th, 1854, was taken ill with pneumonia on the 14th, 
and died after a painful agony of three hours, patiently 
borne, on the 25th of the same month, at Holliday 
street, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. His 
remains, after being placed in the coffin, were visited 
by many persons from outside, students and other 
friends, including non-Catholics: flowers were also sent 
for the occasion as an expression of regard and regret. 
Two days after his death the Office and Mass of the 
Dead were said for his eternal repose, the body, how- 
ever, not being present in the chapel according to cus- 
tom, on account of the contracted space. After the 
services the remains were taken to Georgetown Col- 
lege, to be buried in the cemetery there among his 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 7 

religious brethren. He was born at Conewago, Adams 
County, Pa., June 18th, 1818, entered Georgetown Col- 
lege as a student in 1837, and became a novice of the 
Society of Jesus, September 21st, 1842. His niece, 
Mrs. Jane Jenkins of Conewago, gives in a letter the 
following interesting particulars about her uncle: 

"We have no portrait of him, but some old letters 
which are characteristic of him. While not a singer, 
he played finely on the clarionet, and I have the old 
instrument, though out of repair. He was a most 
successful fisher and hunter and an expert at skating, 
going miles with ease, and loved dogs; was rather 
quiet in company, but extremely witty. He was a 
forcible speaker, not flowery, but to the point; was 
always remarkably pious, even in his youth, and was 
most pure and conscientious. His early death was 
deeply regretted by all his friends." 

One who, when a boy at college, knew him as a pro- 
fessor, has kindly written the following: 

FATHER SAMUEL LILLY, S.J. 

A PEN SKETCH. 

I met Father Sam, as he was familiarly called, in the sum- 
mer of 1845, when he came to Holy Cross College, Worcester, 
Mass., where later he assumed charge of the class of Poetry. 
He was then in his twenty-seventh year. Our young hearts 
were already captured because he was heralded to be a great 
skater, an ardent fisherman and hunter, who played the clar- 
ionet well and wrote fine poetry. I mention his accomplish- 
ments in the order that boys rate them. His appearance con- 
firmed the good opinion we had formed of him. 

He was a man of middle height, slight of form, well formed 
and wiry, of naturally quick and firm step, as became the athlete 
we believed him to be. His features, of Grecian type, were reg- 
ular, his smile winsome, his voice clear and musical. We were 



I 8 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

not old enough then to account for the peculiarly grave motion 
of his head, its gentle inclination forward, his moderate pace, 
the downward cast of his eyes and the low tone he always used 
in conversation. We learned later how and where our athlete 
had acquired these characteristics; they were the results of a 
self-control that never relaxed. Gay and witty as he was when 
with boys, on duty, when alone, or in company with people of 
the world, he was always serious. 

Older folk may have read in his face and manner germs that 
would soon sap the apparent vigor of his constitution; and events 
proved them to be correct. For this reason, perhaps, he was 
never subjected to the weary duties of the prefectship, though 
he delighted to go with the boys to skate or fish, in both of which 
sports he was a master. 

At Georgetown College, which he entered in 1837, he had 
been well formed in the classics, and wrote English verse with 
ease and elegance. In the "Diptic Books," in which Father 
George Fenwick, the great Prefect of Studies, was wont to have 
inscribed the poetical pieces for the Commencements, the cele- 
brations of Washington's birthday and the ''Glorious Fourth," 
at Georgetown and Worcester, Father Sam's name is often to be 
found. 

As teacher, Father Sam was accurate in detail, and painstak- 
ing, but not forceful; he lacked enthusiasm or suppressed it; 
towards his scholars he was uniformly gentle and forbearing, and 
they repaid him in kind. 

As a preacher, he was plain-spoken, not flowery, goingstraight 
to the point; indeed, he preferred to teach boys Catechism and 
explain the points of meditation to the Lay-Brothers. 

After completing at Holy Cross his five years of teaching, he 
returned to Georgetown, then the "House of Studies," and 
began his theology. He was called on to interrupt his studies 
for a year to teach rhetoric in Gonzaga College, Washington, 
under Father Blox. The next year, 1852, he was ordained a 
priest in August. 

His last official position was at Loyola College, Baltimore, 
then newly founded by Father John Early, whose name is still in 
benediction there. With him Father Lilly remained two years 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 19 

as minister and treasurer, entering into closer relations with him 
who for three years in Holy Cross had been his friend and 
superior. 

During that time Father Lilly's health began to fail; never- 
theless, he worked on with unfailing steadiness until God, his 
Master, called him to his reward, on November 25, 1854. 

"The lives of virtue make men dear to God." 

P. F. H. 

In the scholastic year i855-'56 Rev. Edward H. 
Welch, S.J., was the earnest and painstaking Professor 
of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Loyola. The sur- 
vivors of those who attended services in the old Hall of 
the College the year before St. Ignatius' Church was 
completed, will perhaps remember his pleasant voice 
and earnest manner when he preached at Mass on Sun- 
day. He lives in a green old age at Georgetown Col- 
lege, where he is now a member of the Faculty. He is 
a Bostonian, and belongs to an old and honored Massa- 
chusetts family. He was graduated at Harvard over 
sixty years ago, afterwards studied at the University of 
Heidelberg, and travelled extensively in Europe. He be- 
came a convert to the Catholic Faith , entered the priest- 
hood, and afterwards became a member of the Society of 
Jesus, at Frederick, Md., in 185 1. While he was at 
Harvard he had as acquaintances distinguished men, 
either professors or fellow-students. Among his pro- 
fessors were Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, and Mr. 
Justice Story, the eminent jurist. An old friend of his, 
Mr. J. Fairfax McLaughlin, in his book "College Days 
at Georgetown," published in 1899, gives a pleasant ac- 
count of a visit which he paid with Father Welch to Mr. 
Longfellow in the summer of 1859. He says: 



20 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Father Welch and myself, by special invitation from the poet, 
visited Mr. Longfellow and his family at Nahant. As we ap- 
proached the house, which nestled among the rocks over the 
ocean like Cato's cot at Ithaca, the poet saw Father Welch, and 
came out from the door with both hands extended to welcome 
his old Harvard pupil. Mrs. Longfellow, a queenly woman, and 
her three little daughters, were at home. I can never forget 
that pleasant glimpse of the author of "Evangeline" and "Hia- 
watha" which this visit afforded to me. An extremely noble- 
looking woman, indeed, was Mrs. Longfellow, and her powers of 
conversation and feminine charm of manner were brought into 
delightful play that August morning; for the poet was a reticent 
man, more pleased to listen than to talk. Now and again he 
would interject a remark, or suggest a name, place or date to 
show his interest in the conversation, which was principally con- 
ducted by Father Welch and Mrs. Longfellow. . . . Occa- 
sionally Mr. Longfellow would interpose a remark, and next 
would be diverted to his three little girls, who were playing in 
the hall, and sometimes ran into the room to the sofa where he 
sat, and climbed his knee to say something to him about their 
gambols and sports. . . . Not boisterous, not subdued, the 
children talked as they came and went, and their father would 
now enjoy the interruptions of the little ones, and then fall into 
the drift of the more sedate conversation, equally interested in 
both. Of me, a young collegian from Georgetown and a 
stranger to him, Mr. Longfellow's reception was as cordial and 
frank as though I had been an intimate friend of long standing. 

The appointment to Father Early's place at L,oyola 
fell on Rev. William F. Clarke, S.J., then Pastor of St. 
Joseph's Church, Barre street. After two years he was 
transferred to the more conspicuous arena of the National 
Capital, to be Rector of Gonzaga College there and of 
St. Aloysius' Church. He returned to Loyola in 1861 
and remained here many years. He was a long time 
treasurer of the College, on account of his excellent busi- 
ness capacity; also weekly lecturer on Christian Doc- 
trine to the students, and explained to them in a clear 




REV. WH.UAM F. CLARKE, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 21 

and interesting manner the profound truths of religion. 
His chief work, however, was in the Church, and for 
many years he exercised the sacred ministry in the con- 
fessional and the pulpit. He was a preacher of rare 
excellence, truly an orator in spite of want of strength 
and volume in his voice. He possessed a sound knowl- 
edge of theology, a flow of elegant and clear language, 
finished grace of gesture and a distinct and emphatic 
enunciation. He was highly respected in Baltimore on 
account of his blameless life, his dignity of character 
and the courtly polish of his manners. Many acts of 
unostentatious beneficence done by him to others 
were no doubt recorded in the Book of Life, to receive 
their reward in the next world. He was a native 
of Washington ; when a youth, he made his studies at 
Georgetown College and was graduated there. He died 
at Gonzaga College, Washington, in October, 1890, having 
been sent there from Baltimore a couple of years before. 



A REVIEW 

OF SOME OF THE PUBLIC EXERCISES OF THE COLLEGE, AND A 

GLANCE AT SOME OF THE STUDENTS, DURING THE 

YEARS l852-'6o. 

The first annual Commencement was held July 12th, 
1853, in a public hall well known to old Baltimoreans, 
the New Assembly Rooms on Hanover street. The fol- 
lowing notice of the event from the Baltimore Sun news- 
paper of the next day, will prove interesting: 



2 2 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

The first annual Commencement of Loyola College took place 
yesterday in the New Assembly Rooms, Hanover and Lombard 
streets, on which occasion a numerous audience of ladies and 
gentlemen witnessed the exercises with seeming delight. The 
Most Reverend Archbishop F. P. Kenrick, D.D., with a few well 
expressed remarks, conferred degrees upon the two graduates. 
During the delivery of the speeches the audience were quite pro- 
fuse in their applause. The speeches of the two graduates, 
Messrs. George and William Warner, were of considerable 
length, evidenced much research and learning, and were 
delivered in an admirable manner. "The Future of America," 
the theme chosen by Mr. John G. Curlett, was also well con- 
ceived and happily spoken. Indeed, all the addresses were writ- 
ten expressly for the occasion, and delivered in that style of 
oratory which would have conferred credit upon older heads. 
The College is enjoying at the present time a large share of the 
public favor. 

Among those who received the degree of A.M. on this 
occasion, was Dr. Robert H. Goldsmith, now residing at 
Harlem avenue and Calhoun street, a well-known 
physician and public-spirited Catholic of Baltimore. 
On the occasion recently of his 70th birthday, in Feb- 
ruary, 1892, and the 50th anniversary, in March, of his 
graduation from the Maryland University School of 
Medicine, some facts of his life were noticed in the 
newspapers. He gives much of his time to looking 
after the interests of St. Mary's Industrial School, of 
which he has been the physician for thirty-two years. 
He is also physician of St. James' Home for Boys, cor- 
ner of High and Low streets. He has been for years 
prominent in the Catholic Benevolent Legion. He is a 
member of the Young Catholics' Friend Society, and 
was at one time its President. 

The second annual Commencement was held July 
12th, 1854, again in the New Assembly Rooms. We 



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give the notice of it from the Baltimore Sun of the next 
day: 

The annual Commencement of Loyola College took place 
yesterday morning at the New Assembly Rooms, on which 
occasion the saloon was crowded with ladies and gentlemen. 
Some of the pieces were: "Introduction," Andrew McLaughlin; 
"Ode to Liberty," Michael A. Mullin; "Star-Spangled Banner," 
(in Latin verse), Edward Milholland; "Chivalry," J. G. Curlett; 
"Mount Vernon," Thos. W.Jenkins; "Finale," (dialogue), Rich- 
ard M. McSherry and Chas. Morfit. Mr. Curlett's address upon 
Chivalry was an admirable composition, evidencing a high order 
of talent, and delivered in a style of oratory which frequently 
excited the applause of the audience. No student of the Col- 
lege was ever graduated with higher honor, or with more eminent 
credit to himself. The introductory by Master Andrew Mc- 
Laughlin was highly creditable to the youthful speaker, and 
was much applauded. Most Reverend Archbishop Kenrick 
bestowed the degrees and premiums. Mr. Raphael Espin, of 
Cuba, was graduated and was excused from making a public 
address. Mr. Wm. S. Lemmon, of Baltimore, would have been 
graduated, but left the institution a short time since. 

Mr. John G. Curlett, a graduate on this occasion, was 
the son of Mr. John Curlett, a prominent business man 
of the city. The young man received the degree of 
Master of Arts from the College two years later, studied 
law with S. Teackle Wallis, Esq., and died of rapid 
consumption in December, i860, after having been duly 
admitted to practise at the bar. He is still spoken of 
with great praise by those who knew him, and his grad- 
uation address on Chivalry is still remembered and high 
encomium is still bestowed on it by those who heard it. 

It is thought that some extracts from it may prove 
interesting in this place. 



24 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

CHIVALRY. 

By John G. Curlett. 

I only hope that your kindness will heighten 

the few merits of my address, and your sympathy conceal 
its many faults. The system of Chivalry has an atmosphere 
of fancy and romance thrown around it, which has so 
enhanced our appreciation of the noble and heroic sentiments 
which gave it birth, so clothed it with beauty, dignity and 
lustre, that it stands before the eye of our imagination like a 
noble and lovely vision. But on a closer investigation we 
shall find much to blame as well as to praise; we shall 
find here as elsewhere that "The sunniest things cast 
sternest shade." .... It was called into existence at a 
time when no other field was open to the young aspirant 
after distinction but that in which embattled hosts rushed to 
deadly conflict. Chivalry taught the young knight to despise, 
nay, love danger; that its reward was the approving smile of 
beauty, and that life without glory was worthless. Though it 
humanized and elevated war, as a natural consequence it made 
it more frequent. 

War, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a dreadful necessity. It is an 
insatiate demon, which stalks through creation, covering cities 
and nations with the dark pall of mourning. To Chivalry 
belongs the praise of having softened its sterner features. 

Let us look upon the future Knight in the different stages of 
his education. Let us observe him first under the care of his 
mother, one of those noble women whose exalted character alone 
makes us regret that the customs and institutions she so adorned 
have passed away forever. Again, we see him as the page con- 
stantly brought into intimate association with the brave and dis- 
tinguished of one sex, and the fair and gentle of the other. . . 
So passes the time until the period when, after earnest prayers, he 
dons his armor and goes forth to conquer, paying his vows first 
to his lady and then to his God. This exalted military spirit, one 
of the first objects of Chivalry, also proved of immense service in 
the time of foreign invasion. They knew that if they died in 
defence of the land which nurtured them, this was the noblest 
fall; and they cherished the idea that at least one would weep for 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 25 

them — one who, without ceasing to he a delicate, loving woman, 
had become a tutelary divinity. She armed the warrior for the 
field; she received him wounded and dying from the fatal com- 
bat. And more than once she threw aside the weakness of her 
sex, donned the steel-bound corslet, and learned to fight gal 
lantly when her life or her safety required it. 

Think you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that woman is fulfilling 
her destiny, when, on the battle-field, we see her sanction deeds 
of bloodshed, and make life the sport of her caprices? You have, 
no doubt, seen a mighty oak enwreathed and encircled by the 
ivy. Behold a symbol of the relative state of man and woman. 
Man is the oak, woman the ivy which twines around its mighty 
trunk and umbrageous branches, receiving from it support and 
shade, and giving all its picturesque beauty to the monarch of the 
forest. Mark you, also, when the summer has gone, when his 
leaves have become sere and yellow, like fading honors, and have 
been scattered to the four winds of heaven — what clings to him 
when all beside is gone? The loving, caressing ivy, ever green 
and smiling in the very face of desolation. Like the ivy is 
woman — the ornament of prosperity, the solace of adversity. Is 
her influence departed? No! It reigns now as it did in the 
olden time, when lances were shivered and blood flowed for her 
sake. Her influence is the same; her sphere of action is changed 
for a better 

But there was one class to which Chivalry with its human- 
izing lessons never reached — the peasantry, the lower classes. 
They suffered everything, gained nothing. In peace they had 
no peace; in war their condition became even worse .... 

Ladies and Gentlemen, do we not feel that these olden ages 
borrow much from us to enhance their effect and add lustre to 
their fame? The spirit which flourished then, flourishes now. 
Like some fair flower which lives out its brief existence and 
then droops its tender head, drops its soft petals one by one 
around its withered stem, and leaves a something behind it 
which endears to us its past beauty, so Chivalry has not all per- 
ished. It has left behind the prestige of its former glory, the 
genius of its existence. In all the succeeding epochs, has the 
world advanced or retrograded? It is true, it is a little more 
commonplace, if you wish — a little more practical; but who will 
say it is not wiser and better? 



26 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

At the solemn inauguration of the new College, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1855, the Hall was very much crowded by the 
students and their friends, ladies and gentlemen; the 
record makes the almost incredible announcement that 
900 were present. Archbishop Kenrick, with nearly all 
the clergy of the city, attended, and a number of priests 
from a distance. As mentioned already, the exercises 
were in two parts, the first on George Washington and 
the second on Ignatius of Loyola. In the neatly-printed 
program, over the first part on Washington, were the 
words, Et nunc reges intelligite; and over the second on 
Ignatius of Loyola, Erudimini qui judicatis terram, from 
the second Psalm. 

Some of the addresses of the students were: "Intro- 
duction," Wm. H. V. Smith; "The Patriot's Triumph," 
Andrew McLaughlin; "Washington at Mount Vernon," 
Maynard McPherson; "Introduction on Ignatius of 
Loyola," Thomas W. Jenkins; "Novi Ordinis Ductor," 
Edward F. Milholland; "Reflections at the Shrine of St. 
Ignatius," Chas. B. Tiernan; "Societas Jesu, Ecclesiae 
Propugnatrix," Michael A. Mullin. The inauguratory 
address on "Patriotism," by Wm. George Read, Esq., 
and a familiar exhortation to the students and their 
friends, by Archbishop Kenrick, followed. The follow- 
ing is quoted from the notice in the Baltimore Sun of 
the next day: 

One of the most attractive features of Washington's birthday 
was the formal opening of Loyola College. Long before the 
hour of commencement the large public hall of the building (the 
old Hall) was filled to overflowing with a discriminating audience 
of ladies and gentlemen. Just before the exercises the baud 
struck up an enlivening air, and music was interspersed. The 
exercises occupied two hours and a half, and seemed of a very 
interesting character to the audience, who manifested their 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 27 

approbation by enthusiastic applause. The students performed 
their part well, and were complimented by the President, Rev. 
Dr. Early. The address at the close of the first part upon 
"Washington at Mt. Vernon," by Maynard McPherson, a prom- 
ising young gentleman of this city, evidenced uncommon power 
of mind, refined sentiment and graceful delivery, and was 
received with more than usual applause. 

Mr. McPherson, the object of such praise, was gradu- 
ated the next year. It seems to us that within the past 
ten years the newspapers announced his death in Brook- 
lyn, and that he was a lawyer who had held the position 
of Judge. 

The annual Commencement, July 11, 1855, was the 
first to be held in the Hall of the College. Three of the 
numerous pieces spoken were : "The Mother's Triumph, ' ' 
Wm. H. V. Smith; "Roman Magnanimity," Wm. J. 
Tyson; "Tongues," (dialogue), Samuel A. Raborg and 
Wm. H. V. Smith. 

At the Commencement on July 9, 1857, some of the ad- 
dresses were: "Greece," Thos. E. Sullivan; "America," 
Michael A. Mullin; "Education," Randolph H. McKiin. 
At the Commencement on July 8th, 1858, some of the 
addresses and pieces were: "Mount Vernon," Arthur V. 
Milholland; "True Education," Chas. B. Tiernan; Dia- 
logue, R. Dawson Owens and Wm. T. Whiteford; "The 
Student," Wm. S. Zimmerman. At that time the Aca- 
demic classes had not separate Commencement exercises 
as now; hence the explanation of the appearance of the 
Dialogue. In later years at the Commencements of the 
College proper, the students delivered only original 
addresses on subjects of scholarly or practical interest. 
Of this Commencement the Baltimore Sun of the follow- 
ing day, July 9th, 1858, spoke as follows: 



28 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

The annual Commencement of Loyola College took place 
yesterday in the Hall. The Most Rev. Archbishop Kenrick, with 
most of the Catholic clergy of the city, were present. The 
several addresses and dialogues were marked by a good deal of 
taste and talent, and in the several compositions the students 
showed a high state of proficiency. After the pupils had gone 
through with the exercises, S. Teackle Wallis, Esq., was intro- 
duced, and for an hour held the audience by the interest of his 
remarks. He rapidly glanced over the course necessary to be 
pursued by young men just entering on the career of business 
life, to insure the respect of their fellow-men and happiness to 
themselves. He cautioned them against a greed for gain before 
all things else. His remarks were listened to with marked 
attention. 

The Commencement of 1859 was ^ e ^d July 7. at the 
New Assembly Rooms. The Baltimore Stm of the fol- 
lowing day says of it: 

The annual Commencement of Loyola College, an event 
always looked for with interest, took place yesterday. The 
addresses of all the young gentlemen were delivered from 
memory, and showed deep study and application. About half- 
past eleven o'clock the address before the Literary Society was de- 
livered by O. A. Brownson, LL.D., of Boston. He announced as 
his subject "Patriotism." He had selected that, he said, because 
it was applicable to his youthful auditors. If men are patriotic at 
any time, it is in their youth. Patriotism is one of the innate 
principles of the American mind; it is instilled into our compo- 
sition. Chemists cannot discover it in our blood; but it is just 
as predominant as the iron in our veins. Mr. Brownson treated 
his subject in a half literary and half political manner, but to 
the infinite interest and amusement of his audience, who were 
profuse in their applause. 

At the Commencement, July 10, i860, among the pieces 
spoken were: "Epaminondas," Michael E. McColgan; 
"Immortality of the Soul," John A. Daly; "Palmyra," 
Charles Abell; "Philosopher's Scales," Joseph D. Sul- 
livan. The address before the Loyola Literary Society 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 29 

was given by E- Silliman Ives, LL.D., a convert to the 
Catholic Faith, former Protestant Episcopal Bishop of 
North Carolina. 

Among the gentlemen who received the degree of 
A.M. in 1854, was Richard T. Merrick, afterwards one of 
the foremost members of the Washington bar — in Mr. 
Tilden's judgment his ablest defender in the historic 
pleading before the Electoral Commission in 1876. The 
same degree was conferred that year upon Martin J. 
Kerney, author or editor of a number of educational 
books from which many students have profited; notable 
among them being "Kerney 's Compendium of His- 
tory." It is told of him that he became a lawyer; but, 
like St. Eiguori, he had conscientious scruples against 
practising that profession, and gave himself to the work 
of an educator. The same degree was conferred that 
year on Dominic O'Donnell, M.D., a physician of large 
practice, who faithfully and in a disinterested spirit 
gave his services to the College for many years; also 
upon Charles V. Brent, Esq., now holding an important 
position in the Department of the Interior at Washington. 
Among the students who became Bachelors of Arts in the 
years i856-'6o were Dr. Edward F. Milholland, now a 
prominent and successful physician in the city; Andrew 
B. McLaughlin, an artist and Professor of Art; Charles 
B. Tiernan, a scholarly member of the bar, author of a 
book entitled "The Tiernan Family in Maryland," 
which contains many interesting facts; Michael A. 
Mullin, also an able member of the bar; William J. Tyson, 
a merchant in Charlottesville, Va.; Drs. John I. Gross 
(lately deceased), Charles M. Morfit and John N. 
Coonan, veteran physicians of Baltimore; and Rev. John 
A. Daly, an esteemed priest of the Diocese of Wilming- 
ton, Del. 



30 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

In the Catalogues of the two years i852-'54, in the 
class of Poetry and then in Rhetoric, occurs the name of 
ex-Judge William A. Fisher of Baltimore, who died in 
1900. On the announcement of his death in the Court 
of Appeals at Annapolis, October 9, 1900, Chief Judge 
McSherry paid him the following high tribute: 

By the death of Judge Fisher the bar of Maryland has lost one 
of its most distinguished and accomplished members. He was a 
man of unblemished character. He was a thoroughly equipped 
lawyer. He was a cultivated gentleman, unacquainted with the 
devious ways that bring reproach upon the profession. He was 
the soul of integrity, and a model of the strictest propriety. He 
discharged his high duties on the bench, and his exacting and 
numerous engagements at the bar, with a keen appreciation of 
his obligations to suitors and to clients, and with a fixed purpose 
to conscientiously serve and promote the ends of justice. The 
many cases he argued in this court exhibit and attest the versa- 
tility and extent of his legal attainments; and the blameless life 
he led gives the amplest evidence of his exalted Christian 
character. 

Randolph H. McKim was a student in i8.56-'57, and 
took the honors in the class of Rhetoric. In the mean- 
time he has become a prominent and able Episcopalian 
minister, and has been for a number of years Rector 
of the Church of the Epiphany, in Washington. In 
December last he expressed himself very strongly 
against a proposed relaxation of the divorce laws in the 
District of Columbia. The Baltimore Sun of December 
30, 1901, gives the following very commendable words 
of his on this grave subject: 

The marriage bond should be made as strong as possible in 
the interests of the family and higher civilization. No doubt 
hard cases may occur under the operation of this law. These 
are incident to the operation of all laws. The governing 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 3 1 

principle should be the greatest good to the greatest number. 
In this case the greatest good for the comtnuuity demands 
the strict enforcement of the law which we favor. The 
issue involved is one of the most momentous that can arise 
in our legislation. There is involved the weal or woe of the 
family, the unit of civilization, the germ of the State, whose 
interests are vital to public welfare. The family is the founda- 
tion of national character, the buttress of national strength, the 
prime factor of national stability and progress. 

Alfred M. Mayer was a student in the first class of 
Humanities in the first year of the College, but left 
before completing his course, because he had less taste for 
classical learning than for scientific pursuits. Through 
his talent and energy he rose to be a very distinguished 
man of science, not only by his work in the professor's 
chair, but also by original research. In 1856 he was 
called to the chair of Physics and Chemistry in the Uni- 
versity of Maryland. He was professor in Pennsylvania 
College, Gettysburg, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, 
during i865-'7o, and at the latter institution he had 
charge of the department of Astronomy, and superin- 
tended the erection of an observatory. He is the author 
of several books, besides numerous scientific articles 
contributed to cyclopaedias and journals. He was for 
many years Professor of Physics in the Stevens Institute 
of Technology at Hoboken, and won a reputation not 
only at home, but in Europe also. It will be of interest 
to quote from the notices of him that appeared in the 
Scientific American and Supplement after his death, which 
took place in July, 1897: 

Dr. Alfred Marshall Mayer, one of the leading physicists of 
the United States, and for the last twenty-six years Professor of 
Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, died 
July 13, at his summer residence at Maplewood, N. J. . . . 



32 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

At the remarkably early age of twenty years he was called to the 
chair of Physics and Chemistry in the University of Maryland. 
Three years later he accepted a similar position in Westminster 
College, Missouri. In 1863 he went to Paris, where he studied 
Physics, Mathematics and Physiology at the University. On his 
return he was professor in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 
and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. In 1871 Professor Mayer 
accepted the professorship of Physics in the Stevens Institute of 
Technology. He held this chair until last February, when he 
was taken sick. Professor Mayer received the degree of Ph. D. 
at Pennsylvania College in 1866, and in 1872 was elected a mem- 
ber of the National Academy of Sciences. He was one of the 
associate editors of the American Journal of Science, and was 
until the latter part of his life a frequent contributor to the 
columns of the Scientific American, the most important of his 
contributions to the Scientific American being the ''Minute 
Measurements of Modern Science," running through many num- 
bers of that journal. His scientific researches have been prin- 
cipally published in the American Journal of Science under the 
title "Researches in Acoustics." In all he was the author of a 
hundred articles and pamphlets, dealing with the several 
branches of science to which he devoted nearly all his life. He 
was also an enthusiastic sportsman and was the editor of one of 
the finest books on sports that has ever been produced, called 
"Sport with the Rod and Gun." 

A man of science, whose work was unique in the domain 
which he had selected, and who will long be held in warm re- 
membrance by a large circle of friends, has lately passed away. 
. . . Soon after entering upon his duties at Hoboken, Pro- 
fessor Mayer began the series of investigations in acoustics, for 
which he is perhaps best known, and which make him decidedly 
the leading authority on this subject in America. ... A 
man's personality penetrates into all that he does, into his writ- 
ings quite as unmistakably, if less positively, than into his 
conversation and the atmosphere of his home. In a eulogy on 
Joseph Henry, just seventeen years ago, Professor Mayer said: 
"His best eulogy is an account of his discoveries; for a man of 
science, as such, lives in what he has done and not in what he 
has said, nor will he be remembered for what he has proposed to 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 33 

do." In comparing Henry with Faraday he remarked: "Each 
loved science more than money, and his Creator more than 
either." Mayer proved himself a worthy pupil of Henry, and 
their friendship grew in strength until broken by the last great 
Destroyer. His words may now be properly applied to himself. 
. . . Those who were favored with his friendship need no 
reminder of his generosity, his ready sympathy, his quick insight 
and hearty appreciation, his enthusiasm verging sometimes 
almost upon that of boyhood. 

The value of Mayer's work will be tested by time. For some 
parts of it he will unquestionably be long referred to as an 
authority by stranger as well as friend. He dwelt in an atmos- 
phere essentially unfavorable to the spirit which directed his 
work, for nowhere in the world can there be found so high a 
degree of general civilization, conjoined with so small a degree 
of general appreciation of pure science, as in America. Here 
the man who advances theoretical science receives not a tithe of 
the recognition given to the inventor who puts in the market a 
merchantable device which pleases the multitude. We who 
knew Professor Mayer in his work must know him only in 
memory. To have had him as a co-worker and friend is now 
a sad pleasure, and one that nothing can take away. 

Mr. E. K. Baldwin, the well-known architect, was a 
student at the College during the years 1 852-' 54. He 
continued his studies at Mount St. Mary's. 

Mr. Thomas W. Jenkins, the esteemed chief of the 
old-established firm of Henry W. Jenkins & Sons, 
makers of elegant furniture, was a worthy student 
through the years i852-'57; when in the class of Rhet- 
oric in his last year, he received honors in two branches. 

Dr. B. Bernard Brown, a prominent and successful 
physician, was a student during the years 1 853-' 58. 

Mr. Richard M. McSherry, a prominent lawyer and 
estimable gentleman, who died a few years ago, was a 
student during the years 1 853-' 59. A few years before his 
death he learned that his friends wished to have him 



34 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

promoted to the position of Judge. Thereupon he sent a 
card to the press, in which he said that he was most 
grateful for their kindness, that he was fully aware of 
the honor implied in the position of Judge, but that the 
office, he thought, should seek the man. 

Mr. James L. Kernan, the well-known theatrical man- 
ager, was a student in i852-'53; he has been generous in 
his charitable benefactions. 

Mr. R. G. Harper Carroll of Howard County, brother 
of ex-Gov. Carrroll, was a student in the years i852-'56. 

Mr. Eugene Didier, a well-known author and maga- 
zine writer, was a student in the years i852-'54. 

Mr. Joseph Jenkins, of the business firm of Michael 
Jenkins & Bros., was a student in i852-'54. 

Mr. William P. Myers, late of the well-known firm of 
Myers & Hedian, art dealers, was a student in i852-'56. 

Mr. A. Hamilton McGreevy, official of the custom- 
house, was a student in the years i852-'6o. 

Mr. Charles J. Murphy, dealer in paints and painters' 
supplies, was a student in i852-'53. 

Mr. James E. Tormey, official of the Northern Cen- 
tral Railroad, was a student in i852-'53. 

Messrs. James and Robert Halliday, well-known 
florists, were students in the years i853-'55. 

Mr. William H. V. Smith, bank official, was a student 
1 853-' 55; his son became a Jesuit priest, Professor of 
Chemistry in Georgetown College, and died last year. 

Mr. E. K. Buchanan, lawyer and justice of the peace, 
was a student in 1 854-' 55. 

Dr. Alexander Clendinen, formerly a physician in 
Richmond, was a student in 1854-57. 

Edward Moale, an officer of the U. S. Army, recently 
retired after long service, was a student in i852-*56. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 35 

Mr. J. H. Judik, President of the Maryland National 
Bank, was a student in i854-'56. 

Mr. John W. Brown, druggist, was a student in 1854- 
1858. 

Aloysius Crey, official of B. & O. Railroad, was a 
student in the years i855-'6o; his grandfather had a 
private chapel in the neighborhood of the jail, before 
St. John's Church was built, in which the Fathers of 
the College, when the latter was on Holliday street, 
were frequently asked to say Mass. 

Mr. James W. Jenkins, of the Mt. Vernon Cotton 
Mills, son of Mr. James Jenkins, who was one of the 
first pew-holders in St. Ignatius' Church after its com- 
pletion, was a student in the years i854-*59. 

Frederick May was a student in i855-'6o; after his death 
a costly mausoleum was erected to his memory in Bonnie 
Brae Cemetery. He was the son of Hon. Henry May, 
U. S. Senator from Maryland, the "dashing May" of the 
song, "Maryland, My Maryland." Frederick's brother, 
Mr. George May, now a prominent citizen of Baltimore, 
was a student a decade of years later. 

Mr. William Dawson, now a prominent lawyer of 
Baltimore, was a student in the years 1853-61. 

Mr. William A. McSherry, engaged in real estate, was 
a student in the years i857~'6o; his brother, James E. 
McSherry, agent, was a student a decade of years 
later. 

Mr. Frank Carlin, Auditor of the Orphans' Court, was 
a student in the earlier years of the College. 

Mr. J. F. Dammann, a prominent business man, was a 
student in i855-'58. 

Mr. Henry A. Roby, a well-known architect, was a 
student in i855-'57 and i862-'63- 



36 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Messrs. William F. Brady and James E. Brady, en- 
gaged in real estate, and their brothers, sons of Mr. 
Hugh Brady, formerly a well-known contractor and an 
estimable gentleman, were students in the early years 
of the College. 

Rev. Michael J. Byrnes, S.J., now the Minister of the 
College, formerly a professor in different Jesuit col- 
leges, a man of very superior literary and poetic taste, 
was a student in the years 1 855-' 58. 

Rev. John J. Ryan, S.J., a number of years Professor 
of the Natural Sciences at Loyola, and many years pro- 
fessor at Georgetown and other colleges, was a student 
in the years i8.S5-'57. 

Rev. William T. Whiteford, deceased, formerly pro- 
fessor in different Jesuit Colleges and Vice-President of 
Georgetown College, was a student in i856-'59. 

Mr. Richard Wilson, bank official, was a student in 
i8 5 6-'6 3 . 

Mr. Robert H.Weemswas a student in the years 1858- 
'63; he has been in business in New York for thirty years 
or more, and is now business manager in Wall street for 
Mr. Bird S. Coler, well and favorably known in New 
York politics. Mr. Weems visited the College in the 
spring, and before going to see the new building, asked 
to be taken first to the haunts of his youth in the old 
College, and pleasantly recalled incidents of his college 
days. 

Mr. David Hennessy, engaged successfully in real 
estate in St. L,ouis, was a student in i859-'62. 

Messrs. Charles and Walter Abell, sons of A. S. Abell, 
founder of the Sun newspaper, were students in i859-'6i ; 
afterwards they continued their studies at Georgetown, 
and were graduated there. 



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Mr. William C. Blackburn was a student in i859-'6i: 
the Sun newspaper of April, 1902, had a paragraph about 
him from which we quote: 

Few men have had more experience in dealing with tramps 
and destitute men than William C. Blackburn, who for many 
years has been the President and General Manager of the Free 
Sunday Breakfast Association. "Brother Blackburn," as he is 
called by the unfortunates who are the objects of his care, is no 
little of a wit, and at times gives utterance to a retort that is 
decidedly amusing, the more so because he seems unconscious 
of saying anything witty. A haughty gentleman who prided 
himself on his contempt for religion, was once introduced 
to him. "Brother Blackburn" had no knowledge whatever 
of the gentleman's views, and thinking him a friend to good 
works, invited him to give his aid in his missionary labors. 
The gentleman in his most withering manner said: "Sir, if you 
knew to whom you were talking, you wouldn't ask such a ser- 
vice." "Brother Blackburn" mildly eyed him, then in his 
suavest tones replied: "Oh, I have seen that worse than you are 
converted and work for the Lord — don't you be despondent!" 
The gentleman had no more to say. 

If old students of this or a later period miss their 
names from this chronicle with regret, it is because we 
have not the means of recording them. Alma Mater 
cherishes all her sons, and will be pleased to receive word 
from them about themselves and their whereabouts. 



REMINISCENCES 

OF AN OLD STUDENT OF THE YEARS 

1852-54. 

Mr. Eugene L,emoine Didier, author and magazine 
writer, has kindly written the following Reminiscences 
of his college days: 



38 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

I entered Loyola College on the day it was opened for the re- 
ception of students. As I had never studied Latin, I was placed 
in the second class of Rudiments. My Latin teacher was Mr. 
Patrick Forhan, afterwards the well beloved Father Forhan, so 
long identified with the Sunday-school of St. Ignatius' Church, 
and Prefect of Discipline of Loyola College. He impressed me 
as being a very zealous and able teacher, and possessed in a re- 
markable degree the happy faculty of winning the confidence of 
his pupils. Father Samuel Lilly was my teacher in Arithmetic. 
I remember his kind and gentle manner, after all the years 
that have passed since those early college days. Mr. Edward 
McNerhany was my French teacher the first year. Father John 
Early was the first President of Loyola College. To name him 
is to praise him for his many amiable and lovable qualities. He 
was the right man in the right place, being suaviter in ntodo, 
fortiter in re. 

Among my classmates were Edward Moale, who afterwards 
entered the United States Army, and after a long and active ser- 
vice recently retired with the rank of Colonel; and Henry F. 
Placide, a remarkably clever and intelligent youth, who was 
graduated in 1858 with distinction, and was complimented by 
S. Teackle Wallis, Baltimore's gifted orator, who delivered the 
address to the graduates on that occasion. Placide attended the 
postgraduate course under Father Ardia, and received the 
degree of A.M. in 1859, on which occasion the celebrated Dr. 
Orestes A. Brownson was the orator. Placide, after leaving 
Loyola, commenced the study of law in the office of J. Mason 
Campbell, an eminent member of the Baltimore bar. As he grew 
older he displayed a fine literary taste, and no doubt had he lived 
would have made his mark in Law and Letters, but he died before 
he had completed his twenty-first year. Among other class- 
mates who now occur to me were William P. Myers, for many 
years the senior partner of the well-known dealers in art, Myers 
and Hedian; Thomas W. Jenkins, now at the head of the firm of 
Henry Jenkins & Sons; Charles D. Mackenzie, who died young. 
These were in the class of Second Rudiments with me. 

At the February examination I passed over the first class of 
Rudiments to that of Third Humanities. The teacher was Mr. 
Thomas E. Sheerin, afterwards long connected with St. Ignatius' 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 39 

Church as Father Sheerin. The next year I was promoted to 
First Humanities; my teacher was Mr. Martin F. Morris, who 
later studied law, became one of the brightest members of the 
bar of Washington, D. C, and is now an Associate Justice of the 
Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Mr. Morris taught 
two classes in the same room — First and Second Humanities. 
The former numbered only about six students. Among them 
were Philip Laurenson Elder, now a merchant in Chicago; Henry 
A. Moale, who went into business and established the wholesale 
tea house of Moale & Gillet; E. Courtney Jenkins, who entered 
the Confederate Army, was wounded and tenderly cared for by a 
family in Richmond. The not uncommon result followed — he 
fell in love with a daughter of the house, married her, settled in 
Richmond, and in the course of time became the Assistant Post- 
master of that city. He died while holding that position, about 
1890. Edmund Carere was a particularly nice and refined student 
in the first class of Humanities; he left the College at an early 
age and went into a counting-room on the wharf. His health 
failing, he made a trip to Rio, but was not benefitted; and on the 
return voyage his condition was so desperate that the captain of 
the vessel put a barrel of whisky on board in which to preserve 
his body in case the young man died before he reached Balti- 
more. He arrived home alive, but died a few weeks afterwards. 
Frank Gibbons was also in the class of First Humanities at that 
time. After leaving the College he became a contractor for build- 
ing Government light-houses on the Atlantic coast; he died sev- 
eral years ago. / 

Among my classmates in Second Humanities was my life- 
long friend, Charles B. Tiernan, who has been for many years 
a member of the Baltimore bar. In 1898 Mr. Tiernan com- 
piled an interesting genealogical work, entitled "The Tiernan 
Family in Maryland," embellished with rare portraits and other 
illustrations. Three years later — in 1901 — this work was greatly 
enlarged and published under the title of "The Tiernan and 
Other Families, as Illustrated by Extracts from Works in the 
Public Libraries, and Original Letters and Memoranda in the 
Possession of Charles B. Tiernan." As the Tiernan family is 
related to some of the most distinguished families of Maryland 
and Virginia, these annals possess an interest, not only for the 



40 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

families mentioned but for all who are interested in these States, 
as well as in the City of Baltimore. The value of the second 
edition of the work was greatly enhanced by a copious index. 

My professsor of Geometry was Father James A. Ward, who 
possessed in a remarkable degree the qualities which endeared 
him to his pupils. I recall the following who were at the Col- 
lege with me, although they were not classmates: Charles M. 
Morfit, who was graduated in 1859, studied medicine, and after 
receiving his diploma, secured an appointment as Surgeon in 
the Confederate Navy; since the Civil War he has been prac- 
tising his profession in Baltimore; Michael A. Mullin, who has 
been a member of the Baltimore bar for thirty-five years, and 
served one term in the Legislature of Maryland; Dr. Claude 
Baxley, who, after practising his profession successfully in 
Baltimore, removed to Virginia; Francis A. McGirr, who became 
a teacher in Calvert College, Carroll County, Md.; George W. 
Navy, Maynard McPherson, John G. Curlett, who delivered an 
elegant address on "Chivalry" the year he was graduated; he 
studied law, but died at an early age. 

In the first years of the College the morning exercises began 
at 9 o'clock and closed at 12.30; the afternoon session was from 
2.30 to 4.30; this session was devoted to French and Greek. 
Commencement day was about the middle of July; I distinctly 
remember studying hard for the final examination one partic- 
ularly hot 4th of July. The Christmas holidays began on the 
afternoon of Christmas Eve, and ended the day after New 
Year's. The 22d of February was not then a legal holiday, and 
the schools were closed three days only at Easter. 

The old buildings on Holliday street, where Lovola College 
was first started, did not have the space and conveniences for a 
very large number of students; the rooms were small, and 
poorly furnished; there was no playground, no gymnasium, no 
stage, no Hall, no library. But from this small beginning, 
Loyola College has become in the course of its progressive 
existence the magnificent seat of learning which we have lived 
to witness — its halls crowded with students representing every 
walk of life — its schools possessing every facility for mental, 
moral and physical culture. 



II. 



PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF FATHERS O'CALLAGHAN AND 

CIArtPI— SECOND TERM OF FATHER EARLY. 

1860-'70. 



Father Clarke was succeeded as President of Loyola 
College in July, i860, by Rev. Joseph O'Callaghan, S.J. 
The new President was a native of Massachusetts, born 
in April, 1824, but was proud of his Irish name and par- 
entage. He had had ample experience as an educator 
at Holy Cross and Georgetown Colleges, and the College 
prospered under his rule. 

There is a touching record in the Catalogue of 1861 of 
the celebration of Washington's birthday that year in 
the College Hall, with three addresses by students, en- 
titled respectively, "The Counsels of Washington," 
"The Farewell Address of Washington," and "The 
Military Genius of Washington." It seems like the 
futile, though patriotic attempt of our modest College in 
this border city between the sections to avert the terrible 
spectre of civil war so imminent, by directing attention 
to the beautiful teaching and example of the incompar- 
able "Father of His Country." 

In the scholastic year i86o-'6i the Vice-President was 
Rev. Robert W. Brady, S.J. He is better remembered 

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42 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

by old students of Georgetown College before the Civil 
War as a man of strong character and superior ability. 
He was afterward made President successively of Holy 
Cross and Boston Colleges, in Massachusetts, and later 
was appointed Provincial of the Eastern Province of the 
Society of Jesus in the United States. 

Among the instructors of the College at this time and 
for years afterward was Mr. A. J. Tisdall, S.J., a gentle, 
good, pious man; who after his ordination to the priest- 
hood filled successfully for a decade of years the im- 
portant position of Superior of the Jesuit Novitiate at 
Frederick, Md. He died in 1895. 

The Vice-President after Father Brady was Rev. P. 
Forhan, S. J., Sr., who had been an instructor during the 
first three years of the College, and is kindly remembered 
by his pupils; one of them, now an able profes- 
sional gentleman, has spoken of him as the strictest of 
teachers and the best of friends. He was a man of neat 
and exact scholarship. The last years of his life he had 
charge of the Sunday-school of St. Ignatius' Church; 
and how faithful he was to this duty is attested by the 
tablet in the lower church, erected to his memory by 
the children and teachers. During Father O'Calla- 
ghan's term of office also, Mr. James A. Doonan, S.J. 
was a professor — a man of superior talent. After his 
ordination as priest he held with ability, for six years, 
the high position of President of Georgetown Univer- 
sity, Washington, D. C. 

At the Commencement held in the College Hall, July 
8th, 1862, at 4 o'clock p. in., some of the addresses 
were: "Dissertation on Authority," Arthur V. Milhol- 
land; "Marguerite of France," F. H. Hack; "L,ove of 
Truth," Joseph D. Sullivan; "The Struggle of L-ife," 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 43 

James E- Mitchell. Messrs. Milholland, Sullivan and 
Mitchell were graduated as Bachelors of Arts; the first 
named is now an esteemed member of the bar, the other 
two are dead. 

After three years our President was transferred to the 
more responsible position of Superior of the Novitiate, 
at Frederick, Md. Father Joseph O'Callaghan may be 
described, without exaggeration, as a finished scholar, 
an accomplished gentleman and a saintly priest. His 
great labor during his years of office in Baltimore at the 
beginning of the Civil War, and afterward at Frederick, 
so impaired his health, especially his nervous system, 
that he never fully recovered. His rare qualities soon 
became known ; and besides his duties as President of 
the College and Pastor of the Church, he was con- 
sulted by great numbers of persons in their doubts and 
troubles, either personally or by letter. It was said that 
the number of letters he received daily was incredible. 
At length, in January, 1869, while returning from the 
fulfilment in Rome of an important mission for his Order, 
he was killed in a violent storm in the middle of the 
Atlantic Ocean. While seated at a large table in the 
cabin reading his Breviary, a great wave struck the 
steamer, and the table fell on him and crushed in his 
chest. Soon afterwards a Catholic gentleman of Balti- 
more, warmly devoted to him, was speaking about him 
to the writer of this sketch, and in response to a remark 
that at least he died while doing a good act, said that 
he was always doing something good — a true and beauti- 
ful eulogy. 

A portion of a letter written by Father Joseph K. Kel- 
ler, S.J., of St. L,ouis, Mo., giving details of the tragic 
accident to Father O'Callaghan, may prove interesting 



44 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

here. Father Keller was his companion during the voy- 
age across the ocean, and after his return to the United 
States wrote in L,atin for the benefit of the Jesuits on the 
Continent of Europe as well as of those speaking Eng- 
lish. From this letter it will be seen that L,atin, written 
elegantly and fluently, is still a living language at 
I^oyola and her sister colleges. 



Ex Universitate Sti. Ludovici, Missouri, die 19 Martii, 1869. 

. . . Cum Patre O'Callaghan simul iter agere constitui, 
meque illi socium comitemque itineris obtuli; quod ipsi gratissi- 
mum f uit. Neo-Eboracum igitur prof ectus, ibi bunc Patrem primo 
vidi, statimque amare coepi propter nativam hominis bonitatem 
et indolis singularem suavitatem. . . . Confectis Romae ne- 
gotiis, de reditu in Americam cogitare coepimus, quamvis non 
sine periculo sutnma bieme fore navigationetn probe sciremus: 
sed nullus erat timor; fiducia in Deum; submissio voluntati 
divinae. . . . Ad portum Brest prof ecti, die 16 Januarii, 1869, 
navim conscendimus Pereire, celeberrimam optimeque compar- 
atam ad maris furori resistendum. 

Vix ex portu soluta navis iter suum agere coeperat per undas, 
quum orta validissima tempestas fluctus in altum tollere et 
navigantibus dira parare 

Erat autem dies 21 Januarii, et fere medium iter confectum, 
per mare quod est inter Gallias portus et urbem Neo-Eboracum 
in America, quo tendebamus. Pater O'Callagban ad inensam 
sedens Officium Divinum, fortasse Vesperas dilectse suae Patronae, 
recitabat. Ego non procul ab illo, pariter Officio vacabam. 

Quae vero deinceps acciderunt usque ad occasum ferme solis, 
non ex mea memoria, sed ex aliorum narratione referenda. Sic 
subito enim omnia evanuerunt, ut nulla rerum remanserit signi- 
ficatio. Nullum audivi fragorem, nullum insolitum motum navis 
sensi, nullum mali timorem. 

Interea ipse doloribus oppressus et nescio qua membrorum 
lassitudine afflictus, circumspicere coepi locum in quo possem 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 45 

quiescere. Et paullatim, aeger ad parietem navis sustentans 
gressum, ad scalam veni qua descendere possem. Sedi ibi diu in 
tabulatu, scalam contemplans inscius, donee cogitatio venit per 
illam descendendum esse ad lectulum; et ita demum inveni 
locum quemdam in quo forte nautae decumbere solebant; erant 
autem nudae tabulae pro lectis, ibique deposui aegra membra; 
atque ibidem fortasse mini oculos mors clausisset, nisi quis me 
extraxisset ante noctem et duxisset in aliam navis partem in 
quam vulneratos conferre ita statuerant curandos. Ibi in sedili 
positus absque culcitra, vestibus ad pellem usque aquarum in- 
undatione madefactis, noctem peregi non dormiens, sed eodem 
quasi somnio occupatus. 

Postero vero die, quum in nosocomium illud venirent quidam 
ex reliquis vectoribus.rogavi quid factum esset; et prima haec vox 
erat: "Ubinam est Pater O'Callaghan, socius meus ?" Ille autem 
quern interrogabam, inspiciens me, "Bene se habet," respondit 
breviter et abiit statim; quod mihi suspicionem mali injecit. 
Alius deinde paullo post veniens, et a me compellatus iisdem 
verbis, manum arripuit meam medicorum more, et paullisper 
conticescens: "Nunc," ait, "factum audire poteris; scias igitur 
socium tuum heri aquarum pondere et ruinarum cumulo oppres- 
sum occidisse." 

Composita igitur aliquo modo mente, intellexi demum quae 
nobis acciderant: montes scilicet aquarum, simul concurrentes, 
quasi in murum altissimum surgentes, in navim praecipites sese 
dederant immenso pondere; tectum et parietem ruperant, 
oppresserant quos obvios ex vectoribus habuere. Patri O'Cal- 
laghan avulsa e tabulatu mensa pectus inf regerat et aquae pondus 
dorsi spinam diviserat, qui proinde sine sensu, sine dolore e 
vivis excessisse credendus est, et continuo a laudibus divinis in 
navi canendis ad laudes inter angelos concinendas transiisse. 
Omnium servus in Christo, 

Josephus E. Eeubr, 

Soc. Jesu. 



46 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



Translation in Full of the Account ol Father O'Callaghan's 
Death from Father Keller's Letter. 



St. Louis University, Missouri, March 19th, 1869. 

. . . I resolved to travel in company with Father O'Calla- 
ghan, and offered myself to him as a travelling companion, to 
which he gave a ready and cheerful assent. Arriving in 
New York, I there first saw this Father, and was at once 
drawn to him by his native goodness and rare suavity of dis- 
position. . . . After transacting our business in Rome 
we began to think of returning to America, although we 
knew well that a sea-voyage in mid-winter would be attended 
with the gravest danger. And I remember how we talked this 
over between ourselves; but with trust in God and resignation 
to His divine will we had no fear. On this we finally agreed: 
that if God wished us in the depths of the sea, in obedience to 
His will to the depths of the sea would we go willingly. 

After arriving at the harbor of Brest we went aboard the 
Perelre, January 16, 1869, a steamship very well known, and so 
built as to be able to withstand the fullest fury of the ocean. 

Scarce had the ship left port and begun its passage through 
the waves, when a violent storm arose, raised the waves high and 
filled the passengers with dire forebodings. But the brave ship, 
fearing neither the force of the wind nor the rage of the sea, pur- 
sued its onward course for five days, until, as the storm con- 
stantly increased and the sea was more furiously agitated, we 
were obliged to slacken our speed somewhat and yield to the 
elements. 

It was now the 21st of January, and we were about half-way 
between the ports of France and New York City, our destina- 
tion. There is a stretch of sea there, through about ten degrees 
of longitude, which is noted for shipwrecks, and from sad 
experience, much dreaded by sailors. In that place the sea was 
so tossed by contrary winds that nothing but foam could be 
seen. The waves, high as mountains, approached each other 
from opposite directions like armies in battle, and seemed to 
form walls of water, not standing, but walking over the sea 
in a terrifying manner. Our captain then reflecting on all this, 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 47 

saw the danger, and believing it the part of prudence to yield to 
the storm, gave orders that the vessel should use only steam 
enough to enable it to be governed; and the wise captain is 
deserving of all praise. It was this management that made it 
possible to save the ship from sinking entirely, but not to avert 
every calamity. 

A sailor, the first victim, fell from the mast in the morning, 
broke his neck and died instantly. When Father O'Callaghan 
heard of the occurrence he went to the help of the dying man, 
but finding him dead, returned sadly to tell me of the accident, 
and remarked how strange it seemed that the feast-day of 
St. Agnes should be so different from the spirit and character of 
the saint herself. "She was so amiable, sweet and gentle," he 
said, "while this day sacred to her is so wild and fiercely threat- 
ening." And this festival day of his Patroness was to be his 
last on earth; the celebration of it begun by him here was con- 
tinued, we have every reason to hope, in heaven. 

Some hours had passed since the accident to the sailor above 
mentioned, and it was now past three in the afternoon. We 
were then sitting in the dining saloon, which served also as 
a place of recreation, where the passengers would spend their 
time in conversation, reading or playing some game. Father 
O'Callaghan, seated at the table, was saying the Divine Office, 
possibly Vespers of his beloved Patroness. I was also saying my 
Office near him, leaning to one side and resting my elbow on the 
stationary seat, on account of the violent rocking of the steamer. 
About ten others were scattered through the saloon, while many 
had gone below and lay in their berths sea-sick. 

What happened afterwards until about sundown I must tell, 
not from rny remembrance, but from the accounts of others; 
for everything vanished suddenly from my consciousness, and 
no impression remains. I heard no noise and felt no unusual 
motion of the ship, no fear of harm. 

Meanwhile I began to look around for some place in which to 
rest, as I was troubled with sadness and tired and worn in body. 
And sick as I was, steadying myself against the side of the 
vessel, I gradually came to the top of the stairs in order to go 
below. I sat there long on the floor vacantly looking at the 
stairs, until the thought came to go down to my berth; and so 



4© LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

at last I found a place where the sailors were used to stretch 
themselves. There, on the bare boards as a couch, I laid my 
sick and weary limbs; and there, perhaps, I would have closed 
my eyes in death if some one had not rescued me before night 
and taken me to another part of the ship where they had ar- 
ranged to care for the wounded. There on a seat, without mat- 
tress or pillow, with clothes drenched with water to the skin, I 
passed the night, not in sleep, but in a sort of dream. 

The next day, when some' of the other passengers came into 
the hospital, I inquired what had happened, and my first words 
were: "Where is Father O'Callaghan, my companion?" The 
one whom I questioned looked at me and replied briefly: "He 
is well," and then went away abruptly, which made me suspect 
something wrong. 

Another came soon after, and, questioned by me in the same 
words, took my hand as a physician would, and after a short 
silence said: "Now you can bear the truth — your companion 
was killed yesterday by the force of the waves and the destruc- 
tion caused by them." With tears I said, "At least tell the cap- 
tain to keep the body till we get to shore." He answered, 
"Alas! you ask too late— he is already buried in the sea." Then 
I became unable to listen to or say anything more, but covered 
my head and gave way to my grief by shedding tears. 

At length, when my mind had become somewhat calm, I 
learned what had happened to us. Waves like mountains, rush- 
ing together and rising like a high wall, had burst upon our ship 
with enormous force, had broken through the sides and roof of 
the cabin, and crushed any of the passengers who came in their 
way. Three sailors were swept from the vessel into the sea and 
lost. A girl had her neck broken and died. 

The table at which Father O'Callaghan was seated was 
wrenched from the floor and crushed his chest, and the force of 
the wave broke his back; so that, as we may believe, he passed 
from life unconscious and without pain, and from the recital of 
the divine praises in the ship, went straightway to sing them 
with the angels. 

Besides, I learned that a young man who had been injured, 
died during the night in a corner to which he had gone; that 
fourteen others lay wounded in different parts of the vessel; 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 49 

that the steamer itself had been nearly full of water and in 
imminent danger of sinking, and therefore had turned its bat- 
tered prow from the opposing waves, and was now returning to 
France with all rapidity. 

But already the sea was calmer, as if appeased by the victims 
it had taken, and the storm had spent its force and ceased its 
fury, so that our course was favorable, and on the fifth day after 
our calamity we reached the French city of Havre. 

Meantime all that happened amongst us needs but a few words 
to tell. And first of all, the perversity of some men is amazing, 
that amid the common danger of all, in the very face of 
death, they should dare to disgrace themselves by crime. I 
refer to the fact that some one was shameless enough to search 
the clothes of our dead Father and steal his money, his watch, 
papers and keys. 

At length, after three days, cheerless and alone, I became a 
passenger on another steamer, to begin another voyage on the 
ocean. 

So, bidding a sad farewell and invoking a blessing from God 
on all who had shown me hospitality so kindly, we left port, 
and with better fortune, though through some storms and with 
some alarms, after thirteen days we landed in New York. 
The servant of all in Christ, 

Joseph E. Keller, 

Society of Jesus. 



And now an event of moment is to be recorded, the 
beginning of the intertwining of the important office of 
Provincial with the history of the College. 

In the first year of Father O'Callaghan's term of 
office Rev. Burchard Villiger, S.J., Provincial of the 
Maryland Province, removed his residence from George- 
town College to Loyola, where the Provincials continued 
to reside for twenty years. Father Villiger was suc- 
ceeded on the 19th of April, 1861, by Father Angelo 
Paresce, who was installed as Provincial at the dinner 



50 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

of the Fathers at midday; and by a singular coinci- 
dence, later the same day took place the first bloodshed 
of the Civil War, when a regiment of Massachusetts 
soldiers, while passing through Baltimore on their way 
to the seat of war, were assaulted by a violent mob of 
sympathizers with the South. This point of history, 
perhaps, were not worthy of being recalled if it had not 
so beautiful a sequel in the reparation of the wrong 
done. Nearly forty years afterwards, during the late 
Spanish War, the same regiment, though not the same 
men, when passing through our city in response to the 
President's call to arms, were received with every mark 
of cordial welcome — were supplied with dainty refresh- 
ments and pelted with flowers by the ladies. To these 
kind attentions they responded through their band, 
when it played the stirring air of "Maryland, My 
Maryland!" 

Father Paresce during his term of office built Wood- 
stock College, of which he became the first Rector when 
it was opened in September, 1869. He was succeeded 
as Provincial in August, 1869, by Father Joseph E. 
Keller, of St. L,ouis, the same who had been Father 
O'Callaghan's devoted companion during his fatal 
voyage across the Atlantic. He was favorably known 
at Loyola during the eight years of his administration. 
Father Robert Brady was installed at L,oyola as the next 
Provincial in May, 1877, and he resided here until 1880, 
when he was obliged to remove his residence to St. 
Francis Xavier's College, New York City, where the 
Provincials have since continued to reside. 

To Father O'Callaghan's place in Baltimore suc- 
ceeded Rev. Antony Ciampi, S.J., who was installed as 
President in September, 1863. He was of a distin- 




Rev. Antony Ciampi, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 5 1 

guished Roman family, and left his native Italy in his 
youth, in order to give to our own country the benefit of 
his rare classical scholarship, his mildness and skill in 
the direction of consciences, and other admirable attain- 
ments. He died at Gonzaga College, Washington, in 
November, 1893, aged 77 years. 

For four years, during Father Ciampi's term of office 
and afterwards, Rev. James Tehan, S.J., was Vice-Presi- 
dent and Prefect of Schools; and by his energy and zeal 
he contributed much to the prosperity of the College at 
that time. Previously, during the years i856-'58, he 
had been Professor of the second and first classes of 
Humanities; and he is remembered by his scholars as a 
man of blunt honesty, kind of heart and sincerely 
devoted to their true interests. He was also known as a 
wise and sympathetic director of consciences in the con- 
fessional. He died at the Jesuit church in Providence, 
R. I., in October, 1879, at the age of 53. He was a 
native of Frederick, Md. Two brothers of his were 
also members of the Society of Jesus. 

For several years at this period Messrs. Jeremiah 
O'Connor and Patrick H. Toner, S. J., were the popular 
and talented Professors of Classics, Literature and Mathe- 
matics. Mr. O'Connor was also director of the Dramatic 
Association of the students, and through his fine taste 
and untiring labor they were enabled to present many 
plays in an admirable manner. After his ordination as 
priest he was made President of the College in Boston, 
and was Pastor of the Church at Eighty- fourth street and 
Park avenue, New York, at the time of his death, which 
took place in February, 1891, at the age of 50. Father 
Toner was afterwards Vice-President of Woodstock Col- 
lege, and subsequently Pastor of St. Joseph's Church, 



$2 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Providence, R. I., in which office he died, January, 1887, 
at the age of 46. 

At the annual Commencement, July 6th, 1864, some 
of the addresses were: "The L,ate Archbishop of Balti- 
more," (F. P. Kenrick), Henry J. Shandelle; "Death 
on the Battle- Field," F. H. Hack; "Immortality of the 
Soul," Robert K. Wilson; "The Atmosphere," Thomas 
A. Wilson; "Fame," Thomas E. Brady. Four students 
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, among them 
Thomas E. Brady, now a member of the legal profession 
in the city, and Robert K. and Thomas A. Wilson, 
brokers in stocks and bonds. 

Of the annual Commencement held July 3d, 1866, the 
Baltimore press of the next day gave the following 
account: 

This popular and flourishing institution of learning (Loyola 
College), under the direction of the Jesuit Fathers, held its 
fourteenth annual Commencement at the Monumental Assembly 
Rooms, St. Paul and Centre streets, yesterday morning, and was 
largely attended by the friends of the students. . . . The 
front part of the Hall was occupied by the students to the num- 
ber of 160. The essays of the students were generally of a cred- 
itable character, and evidenced the encouraging degree of men- 
tal culture they had attained under their teachers. Some of the 
pieces spoken were: "Wakeful Present and Dreamy Future," 
I. R. Baxley; "Shakespeare and Sheridan Knowles," F. H. 
Hack; "The College Boy," William A. Aiken. After this a 
lengthy and learned essay on "The Study of the Ancient Clas- 
sics" was delivered by the Rev. Charles F. King, S.J., Professor 
of Rhetoric. 

In the summer of 1866 Rev. John Early, S.J., as if 
his superiors had a presentiment that only a few years 
more of his life remained, was called once more, at a 
critical period in its history, to preside over the institu- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 53 

tion which he had founded. The College enjoyed re- 
newed prosperity under his government; while for some 
years no student had received the degree of A.B., in 
course, now, during his administration of four years, 
three classes continued their course to completion and 
the reception of that degree. 

The Dramatic Association of the students, having for 
its object to exhibit the beauties of the legitimate 
drama, and to give a training in elocution to the per- 
formers, gave some admirable performances during his 
term of office. Friends of the College of that date will 
remember the simple, beautiful, very able acting of 
Mr. Frederick Hack above all others; who, however, on 
the completion of his course directed his efforts toward 
becoming a successful practical lawyer. 

The Loyola Dramatic Association was formed in 
April, 1865, having as its first director Mr. Daniel 
Ford, S.J., an instructor at the College that year. He 
was a native of L,owell, Mass., and is remembered as a 
very estimable and talented young man, remarkable for 
superior literary and dramatic taste and skill in elocu- 
tion. Consumption, however, claimed him as its own 
and obliged him to seek the milder climate of Cali- 
fornia, where he died at Santa Clara College, in Octo- 
ber, 1870, at the age of 36. 

At the annual Commencement, July 5, 1865, the 
Association presented Cardinal Wiseman's Play, "The 
Hidden Gem," and after it the Trial Scene from the 
"Merchant of Venice." On December 26 and 29, 1865, 
they rendered the great play of "Hamlet," with Mr. 
Frederick H. Hack as the star character. On June 28 
and July 5, 1866, was rendered Bulwer's "Richelieu," 
with Mr. Walter E. McCann in the character of the 



54 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

great Cardinal. On December 26, 1866, the student 
players presented trie tragedy of "Sedecias, or the 
Last King of Judah," with Mr. W. E- McCann in the 
character of Sedecias; and they relieved the gravity 
of the tragedy by giving "Handy Andy" as an after- 
piece. 

Just a year afterward, December 26, 1867, they ren- 
dered Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with great eclat, 
followed by the comic afterpiece, "A Day after the 
Fair." In June, 1868, was twice presented Shake- 
speare's "Richard the Third," with Mr. F. H. Hack 
most impressive in the character of Richard. On May 
17, 1869, they presented two comedies, "The White 
Horse of the Peppers" and "Deaf as a Post;" and on 
May 19, three more risible plays, one of them entitled 
' ' Mesmerism, ' ' another, ' 'The Man with the Carpet- Bag . ' ' 
As they announced in their program, they hoped that 
after four years in the classic lands of tragedy, an 
excursion into the ever pleasing haunts of merriment 
would prove healthful to themselves and meet with the 
approbation of their friends at home. Judging from the 
newspaper notices, the students of those distant years 
were as worthy of praise in their dramatic performances 
as they are remembered to have been during the last 
ten years of our half-century. Some quotations from 
those notices, it is thought, will prove interesting. The 
following appeared after the performance of "Hamlet": 

Shortly after the opening of the College doors, every avail- 
able seat was occupied and the Hall filled to its utmost capacity 
with an intelligent and appreciative audience. After several 
appropriate airs by the orchestra, the scenic veil was removed 
from the eyes of the impatient, and a hearty round of applause 
greeted Mr. F. H. Hack, as the "Melancholy Dane," standing 
pensively at his uncle's court. Our young artist seems to have 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 55 

borne in mind throughout the play that the nearer acting ap- 
proaches nature, the greater will be the effect. We have wit- 
nessed several amateur attempts at "Hamlet," but never any to 
surpass that of Mr. Hack. W. E. McCann's "Ghost" was very 
impressive, and the buzz of approbation was distinctly heard on 
all sides. "King Claudius," by I. R. Baxley, was performed in 
a most praiseworthy manner, especially the Prayer Scene. This 
role was not excelled by any other in the caste. There was an 
unfortunate contretemps of laughter by the juveniles at the 
appearance of the grave-diggers, which interfered with the effect 
of Mr. R. Hamilton's excellent performance. 

The following appeared after the presentation of 
"Sedecias:" 

The play "Sedecias" was done excellently. The leading role 
was assumed by W. E. McCanu, who made as much of the part 
as its scope permitted. W. J. Taylor appeared as "Nebuchodo- 
nosor," and was successful in its rendition, as was F. X. Jenkins 
in his performance of "Elmero." "Jeremias," by A. A. Prevost, 
showed careful study and an excellent idea of the character. 
The remaining characters were executed in a most commendable 
manner. "Handy Andy, " the concluding piece, went off with 
as much eclat as its predecessor. George H. Fox, in the role of 
"the good-natured but blundering Irishman," kept the audience 
in a constant roar, and we take great pleasure in congratulating 
him upon his eminent success. 

Southern Society, a literary journal, had the fol- 
lowing on the performance of "Julius Caesar:" 

I hope a few remarks about the Christmas dramatic entertain- 
ments at Loyola College may not be unacceptable. At first we 
were afraid the young gentlemen had been too ambitious in 
attempting so difficult a play as "Julius Caesar;" but this fear 
was dispelled before the end of the first act. The characters 
were cast with a skill and judgment which might be imitated 
by the managers of public theatres. The part of "Julius 
Caesar," by Mr. W. J. Taylor, was well sustained. Mr. I. R. 
Baxley, as "Brutus," displayed a very good conception of that 



56 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

character. Undoubtedly the star of the evening was Mr. F. H. 
Hack, as "Mark Antony." His acting exhibited a careful study 
and finish, and the famous oration over the body of Caesar was 
admirably delivered . . . The College Hall has been per- 
manently transformed into a mimic theatre, with stage, scenery, 
curtains, footlights, etc. The Loyola Dramatic Club has been 
in existence only a few years; but the excellent training of the 
young gentlemen reflects great credit upon the professor to 
whose careful management and untiring exertions a great part 
of the success is due. 

The following notice appeared after the performance 
of "Richard III.:" 

The performance of "Richard III.," by the Dramatic Club of 
Loyola College was a decided success. All of the appointments 
would do credit to any of our public theatres. The principal 
performers did remarkably well. Mr. P. H. Hack, as "Richard," 
displayed a just conception of the character of Shakespeare's 
monstrous hero. His finished declamation, his gestures, his 
expression, his whole action evinced a close study of the part, 
extraordinary in one so young. Messrs. I. R. Baxley as "Rich- 
mond," J. P. Van Bibber as "Buckingham," H. M. Russell as 
"Henry VI.," and F. X. Jenkins as "Lord Stanley," deserve par- 
ticular mention for the excellence which they displayed in their 
several parts; while the Masters J. B. and H. St. A. O'Neill, as 
the young Princes, by their affecting naturalness of manner and 
sad fate, drew sympathetic tears from several of the more tender- 
hearted of the audience. The pretty little theatre was filled to 
its utmost capacity by the relations and friends of the perform- 
ers, who manifested their approbation by showering bouquets 
upon the most deserving. 

After a dramatic performance at Loyola in more recent 
years, a press account spoke as follows: 

The old Jesuit colleges on the continent, as scholars say, were 
remarkable for the thorough education given. In scholarship, 
in oratory and in the sciences, their students were the leaders. 
The names of Bossuet, Francis de Sales, Bourdaloue, Segneri, 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 57 

and of O'Connell, Shiel, Meagher and Lowe in more recent times, 
are ample proof that in oratory the Jesuits and their pupils 
excelled. Many have essayed to account for this supremacy in 
oratorical power. The reason is found in the excellent course 
of poetry, rhetoric and philosophy afforded in the Jesuit course 
which has to be made by all. But some may inquire about the 
finished and unrivalled delivery that was so noticeable in the 
orators just mentioned. We think that it was the stage that gave 
this excellence; for in the Jesuit colleges from the beginning 
plays were given two or three times a year, and a new school of 
acting was developed. Rant was done away with, and natural- 
ness took its place. In more modern times the Drama has not 
been neglected in Jesuit colleges; and their plays have not un- 
frequently attracted great attention, and have been regarded as 
of a high order. We are pleased to hear that there is a regular 
course in declamation in the College and a flourishing Debating 
Society, which will soon give another public debate on a popular 
subject. These debates in the past have been of a superior kind. 

Give, indeed, its due meed of praise to everything; 
but perhaps this notice bestows too much praise upon the 
dramatic stage when it seems to say that from it alone 
can come such finished and unrivalled oratorical de- 
livery as was possessed by the eminent men named. 

The following will be considered a pretty incident of 
the I,oyola Dramatic Association. In October, 1867, 
the members by a unanimous vote elected Mr. Edwin 
Booth, the great actor and a Baltimorean, an honorary 
member. On being informed of his election, he wrote 
the following graceful reply: 

Pittsburg, October 7th, 1867. 

Dear Sir: But for the accident which prevented me from 
using the pen, I should have acknowledged the honor you have 
conferred on me ere I quitted Baltimore. I hope it is not now 
too late to thank you and the gentlemen of the Loyola Dra- 
matic Club for this most gratifying token of their esteem, and 



58 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

to assure you that it will incite me to renewed endeavors in my 
difficult task. Trusting that you will pardon my delay and the 
brevity of this epistle, 

I am, with great respect, 

Very truly your obedient servant, 
Edwin Booth. 



It has always been a custom at the College that at the 
end of each month there should be a reading before all 
the students of the marks of merit given in each class 
during the past month, followed by a bestowal of testi- 
monials of excellence on the most deserving. About the 
time of Father Early's second appointment, a laudable 
feature was added to this monthly exercise, that of 
having a few of the best compositions of the students 
in prose or verse read in public by the writers. 

At the annual Commencement, held in the Monu- 
mental Assembly Rooms, July i, 1867, some of the 
addresses were: "The Atlantic Cable," William A. 
Aiken; "Public Opinion," Thomas Brand; "Trust to 
the Future," Winfield Taylor. "At this Commence- 
ment," says the Catholic Mirror in its next issue, 
"William P. Preston, Esq., delivered the address to the 
students, which was characterized by acute thought 
couched in beautiful language, and delivered with fine 
effect." Mr. Preston was one of the most distinguished 
lawyers of the city at that time. 

At the annual Commencement held July 1st, 1868, at 
the New Assembly Rooms, some of the addresses were: 
"Epic Poetry," Richard C. Hamilton; "Different Phases 
of Genius," I. R. Baxley; "Humorous Writing," John 
A. McCambridge; "Harmony of the Universe," John P. 
Van Bibber. The address to the students was by James 
F. McLaughlin, Esq., now of New York, author of 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 59 

"College Days at Georgetown," a book which appeared a 
few years ago and was received with great favor. At this 
Commencement degrees were conferred in course for the 
first time in four years. Six students became Bachelors 
of Arts, among them Mr. Frederick H. Hack, now a 
member of the bar, Mr. John P. Piquette, a skilled 
pharmacist and member of the able Faculty of the Mary- 
land College of Pharmacy, and Mr. Isaac R. Baxley of 
California, engaged in literary pursuits and the author 
of two volumes of poetry. Mr. Hack received the gold 
medal in Rational Philosophy, Mr. Piquette in Natural 
Philosophy, and Mr. Baxley received honors in Chem- 
istry. 

At the Commencement, July 1st, 1869, in the College 
Hall, some of the addresses were: "The Poetry of 
Science," William A. Aiken; "Burial at Sea," (in 
memory of Rev. Joseph O'Callaghan, S. J.), Goodwin 
H. Williams; "Political Ambition," Thomas M. Wil- 
liams; "The Nineteenth Century," Thomas J. Brand. 
Mr. T. W. M. Marshall, the distinguished English 
writer, author of "Christian Missions," "Comedy ot 
Convocation" and "My Clerical Friends," was present 
at the exercises and expressed great admiration to Father 
Early at the maturity and culture shown in the addresses 
of the young men, especially in that of Mr. Brand, who 
received the degree of A. B., and who died many years 
ago. Four others received the same degree, among them 
Mr. Wm. Aiken, the distinguished engineer who has at 
present the very responsible duty of examining all the 
materials to be used in the making of the great tunnel 
under New York City, and deciding as to their fitness 
or unfitness; Mr. Thomas Williams, a lawyer, living in 
New York many years; and Dr. Francis Murphy, a 
veteran physician. 



60 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

At the Commencement, July ist, 1870, in the College 
Hall, some of the addresses were: "Existence of the 
Deity," Lloyd W. Williams; "Public Distinctions," 
Ambrose L,. Sappington; "Man's Immortality," Augus- 
tine D. Wagner; "Physical Science," Ernest A. Hoen. 
The address to the students was by A. Deo Knott, Esq. 
We quote from the lengthy notice in the Catholic 
Mirror: 

The Hall was tastefully decorated with flags and festoons of 
evergreen, together with well chosen mottoes from the Latin 
classical authors. Right Rev. Bishop Thomas Foley of Chicago, 
accompanied by his brother, Rev. John Foley, arrived after 
the exercises had somewhat progressed, and as a natural 
consequence of his popularity among the Catholics of his 
native city, was greeted with hearty applause upon his entrance. 
The subjects of "The Existence of the Deity" and "Man's 
Immortality" were well treated, the compositions displaying an 
Aristotelian accuracy of reasoning, united with a Platonic ease 
and elegance of style. "Public Distinctions" was a well written 
piece, and contained some wholesome advice to our people 
regarding the choice of their public servants. The claims of 
"Physical Science" were well, and in parts eloquently vindicated 
by Mr. Hoen, while he at the same time conceded the superiority 
of the sciences of the soul and of God, and of man's duty toward 
Him. The general delivery of the speakers was much to be 
commended, while the exercises as a whole were of a solid char- 
acter, free from anything flimsy, and indicative of the substan- 
tial worth of the College. At the conclusion of the students> 
addresses Mr. A. Leo Knott, State's Attorney, ascended the 
stage and delivered an address to the students, especially to 
those about to be graduated. He said that the present occasion 
recalled vividly to his memory his own college days, and that he 
remembered especially with tender emotion the day on which he 
stood on the line separating college life from the great world. 
He doubted not that the students of Loyola College had been 
abundantly furnished with wise and holy counsels to guide their 
lives and direct their conduct, inculcated by the precept and still 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 6 1 

more by the practice of their professors, the sons of Loyola. But 
he ventured to take for the subject of the few remarks which he 
proposed to make, the necessity of always acting from a sense of 
duty, something which is, alas, too little thought of by the world 
now-a-days. The great talk of every one is about rights — even 
Red Cloud and his brother chiefs come from the Far West to see 
their Great Father in Washington, and to demand what they 
consider their right of horses, powder and fire-water. Duty is 
not thought of any more. In the course of his remarks he 
alluded in beautiful terms to the example of unflinching adher- 
ence to duty, even when not imperative, given by that physician 
of Europe who, when the plague was carrying off hundreds and 
thousands of his fellow men, and baffled the utmost skill of the 
physicians, shut himself up with the prospect of certain death, 
to dissect the pestilential corpses, and acquire information which 
might enable his fellow physicians to stay the dreadful scourge. 
But we cannot give a worthy representation of Mr. Knott's excel- 
lent address. At its conclusion the degree of Bachelor of Arts 
was conferred, through the hands of Bishop Foley, on Messrs. 
Hoeu, Sappington, Williams and Wagner. The College now 
numbers eighteen years of existence; and considering that dur- 
ing that time it has educated many of the most promising young 
men of our city, engaged in professional and business pursuits, 
some of whom have attained considerable distinction, we cannot 
but wish it a heartfelt God-speed in its career of usefulness. 

Mr. Ernest Hoen, of the graduates of this year, is 
now the agent in Richmond of the well-known Balti- 
more firm of lithographers. 

In July, 1870, after four years of presidency, Father 
Early was sent, as happened to him before, to relieve 
Rev. Bernard Maguire, S.J., in the government of 
Georgetown College, D. C. In that duty he passed the 
last two or three years of his life; and he now rests in 
the tasteful little cemetery of the College, near the grave 
of Father Maguire, with whom alternately for twenty 
years he guided so well the destinies of that venerable 
institution. Father Early was a native of Ireland, but 



62 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

had been in the United States since his youth. He 
was conscientious, broad-minded, dignified and of im- 
pressive presence. He had so remarkable an adminis- 
trative talent that since he was a young priest until his 
death, about twenty-five years, he was, with the excep- 
tion of one or two years, constantly Rector either of Holy 
Cross College in Massachusetts, or of Loyola College or 
Georgetown College. He was a man of kind heart 
and great charity, especially to those in distress. He 
loved a pleasant jest; but when something serious was 
in question, he could be serious and decisive in word 
and action. The last months of his life, being unable 
to say Mass on account of his ailments, he would often 
hear Mass in the sacristy of the College Chapel, and, 
attracting as little attention as possible, would devoutly 
receive Communion. So it was in other instances: his 
humility led him to conceal his virtues, so that they 
were known only to God and those mayhap who were 
intimately associated with him. What better could be 
told about him in parting, than the story of the poor ser- 
vant girl who, probably after experiencing his kindness, 
wished after his death to give one hundred dollars 
from her hard earnings for Masses for Father Early's 
eternal rest. In speaking of him, we are reminded of 
several Fathers who were associated with him at the 
College. 

During the years 1 863-' 70 Loyola College was the 
home of Rev. Michael O'Connor, S.J.; it often profited 
by his advice, and sometimes he took part in the exami- 
nation of the higher classes. After having founded the 
two dioceses of Pittsburg and Erie, and after having been 
the revered and beloved Bishop of one or the other for 
seventeen years, in i860 with the Pope's permission, on 




Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 63 

account of broken health, he laid down his episcopal 
charge and became a simple member of the Society of 
Jesus. He was a man of profound and almost universal 
learning, and yet was as simple and docile as a child. He 
was once cited before a committee of the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania to give some special information, and un- 
consciously made himself known as a master in every 
kind of law. Though in his youth he had probably a 
poor course in Natural Philosophy, or none at all, yet 
when he was called on to question the students at their 
examinations he manifested a clear insight into it. Once, 
when asked how amid his ecclesiastical occupations he 
had obtained that knowledge, his only answer was that 
he had "picked it up." He told how, when he was 
crossing the Atlantic between i840-'5o, he happened to 
have as a fellow-passenger S. F. B. Morse, who explained 
to him his telegraph, which he was then endeavoring to 
perfect ; and how he gave the great inventor every 
encouragement in his power, and thus contributed to the 
success of the world's greatest invention. 

He was above all an eminent theologian; and when 
the Bishops of the world were assembled in Rome, in 
1854, for the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate 
Conception of the Blessed Virgin, Cardinal Wiseman said 
that the most learned among them was Bishop O'Connor, 
of Pittsburg. During the years of the Civil War, through 
his personal friendship with some of the highest officials 
of the Government, he did much in the interest of peace 
and lenity. When it was proposed to purchase the 
Universalist Church, on the corner of Pleasant and 
Calvert streets, and to dedicate it as St. Francis Xavier's 
Church, for the Catholic colored people of Baltimore, 
which it is now, he went from church to church and 



64 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

received into his own hand the money of those who 
contributed for that purpose. When he died, in 1872, 
at Woodstock College, he left behind him the reputation 
of a man of saintly life. 

In 1888, Rev. Edward J. Sourin, S.J. died at Loyola 
College; he had been for many years one of the priests of 
the College, and formerly Vice-President and Professor of 
French. In 1855, being already advanced in years, and 
one of the most distinguished priests in the diocese of 
Philadelphia and its Vicar-General, he resigned that 
dignity and entered the Society of Jesus in the small city 
of Frederick, Maryland. He was a man of rare scholarly 
attainments, and an elegant writer and eloquent speaker 
before the infirmities of age came upon him; yet his great 
delight was to minister to the needs of the colored people, 
the poor, and the prisoners in the jail or penitentiary. 
He lived many years in Frederick, where his labor 
could be easily limited; and the reason why his 
Superiors placed him there was, that at Eoyola College 
his want of thought about himself and his charitable 
willingness to answer the calls of all who sought his 
services, made endless labor for him, which his health 
could not have borne. Even when he was confined to 
his sick-room at the College before his death, his desire 
to do good was still gratified when he was called on to 
give solemnly his judgment of the virtues of Bishop 
Neumann, of Philadelphia, with a view to the latter's 
beatification. 

Rev. James Ward, S.J. is pleasantly remembered by 
many old students of the College and parishioners of the 
Church. He was the amiable Vice-President or Prefect 
of Schools of the first years of the College, as well as of 
later years, who in the class-room or in his own simple 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 65 

room made college attractive to the boys by his pleasant 
smile and kind, jocose words; he was the gentle confessor 
who never repelled. The concise Greek Grammar of which 
he was the author, arranged, as the title-page says, for 
the students of Loyola College, was a boon to many a 
beginner in Greek, and should not have been allowed to 
go out of print. He died in a happy old age at George- 
town College, in April, 1895, after having held for many 
years of his life the important position of Rector of 
the Jesuit community at Frederick. He was at Loyola 
during the years i852-'57, again in i8yy-'jg, and finally 
in 1 882-' 84; he was Professor of Natural Science during 
the first years of the College. 

To old students of Father Early's time the memory 
will not fail to come also of Rev. Charles King, S.J., at 
different times Vice-President, Prefect of Schools, and 
Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry. He was a man of gentle 
and amiable character, of refined and sensitive temper- 
ament, of pleasant address. He was an excellent liter- 
ary and classical scholar and a master of choice English; 
a very good preacher — calm, neat, clear and distinct; 
and especially had he the gift of preaching well on the 
Mother of God, and exciting warm Catholic devotion to 
her in the hearts of the students. He was known also as 
an instructive and interesting popular lecturer; and as 
he was a cultivated musician, it was an aid to devotion 
as well as a refined pleasure to hear him sing Mass, 
while it would be a special treat to a refined company to 
hear him sing one of the soul-inspiring popular melodies. 
But consumption seized on his lungs and claimed him 
as its own. While he was giving a Mission to the people 
in Pennsylvania he was taken with his death-sickness 
and died there in March, 1870, at the age of 52, in most 



66 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

edifying religious sentiments. He had been at L,oyola 
during the years 1 855-' 70. 

If in this humble history we cannot commemorate all 
the good men who lived at Loyola as members of the 
Faculty or professors, but must omit mention of many, 
this should not be attributed to want of regard for them 
or of appreciation of their worth. The Church loves 
and honors all her saints, and yet a limited number only 
are commemorated in her Office through the year — 
many are necessarily omitted. 




Rev. Jambs Ward, S.J. 



III. 



OLD STUDENTS DURING THE DECADE 1860-70. 



The following are some of whom we have infor- 
mation : 

Mr. Walter E. McCann, a well-known author and 
journalist, was a student during the years i856-'65. 

Mr. Edmund Barroll, agent, was a student during the 
years i856-'6i. 

Mr. Frederick Cook, a prominent member of the bar, 
was a student during the years i858-'65. 

Mr. William H. Appold, merchant, was a student 
in i860-' 63. 

Mr. Thomas S. Curlett, brother of John G. Curlett, 
was a student during the years i86o-'64. 

Mr. J. Vansant McNeal, treasurer of the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad, was a student in i86o-'63; his son, Mr. 
J. Preston McNeal, was graduated at Loyola as A.B. in 
1898, and is now a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad official. 

Dr. J. Carroll Monmonier, a prominent and esteemed 
physician at Franklintown, in the suburbs, was a stu- 
dent in i86o-'62. 

Mr. William Zimmerman, engaged in business, was a 
student in i856-'6i. 

Mr. Chauncey Brooks, in business, was a student in 
i86i-'62. 

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68 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Mr. John A. Kerney, in business, was a student in 
i86i-'64. 

Messrs. D. and J. Broderick, prominent and esteemed 
business men, were students respectively in 1 862-' 67 
and 1868-70. 

Mr. Jos. M. Dreisch, in business, was a student in 
1862-64. 

Mr. Robert H. Jenkins, of the wholesale firm of 
Edward Jenkins & Sons, was a student in i856-'64. 

Mr. Adolphe Prevost, superintendent, was a student 
in i862-'67. 

Rev. Henry Shandelle, S.J., professor at Georgetown 
University, D. C, and formerly professor at L,oyola 
several years between 1880 and 1887, was a student in 
i862-'65- 

Mr. Herbert W. Anderson, in business, was a student 
in i863-'66. 

Rev. Jerome Daugherty, S.J., now holding the distin- 
guished position of Rector of Georgetown University, 
and who was a professor at I,oyola in 1 884-' 85, was a 
student in i863-'65. 

Dr. Adolphe G. Hoen, physician of Waverly, was a 
student in i863-'66. 

Mr. Francis X. Jenkins, in business, was a student in 
1863-69. 

Mr. Fielding H. L,ucas, city official, was a student in 
i863-'68. 

Dr. H. Clinton McSherry, a well-known and eminent 
physician, was a student in 1 863-' 67. 

Mr. John R. Ross, lawyer, was a student in i863-'64. 

Mr. Henry Bach, merchant, was a student in 1863-65. 

Mr. G. Allen McSherry, of the bar, was a student in 
i864-'68. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 69 

Mr. George G. Atkinson, in business, was a student 
in i863-'69. 

Mr. Wilson Carr, engaged in insurance, was a 
student in 1 865-' 68. 

Mr. Josias J. George, in business, was a student in 
i865-'66. 

Mr. G. Frank Gibney, in business, was a student in 
i865-'66. 

Mr. Edward A. Griffith, manufacturer, was a student 
in i864-'70. 

Dr. Charles Grindall, a well-known dentist, retired, 
and founder of the gold medal for the class of Philoso- 
phy, was a student in i865~'67. 

Mr. Frank Koons, Custom House official, was a 
student in i865-'66. 

Mr. Edward Oppenheimer, merchant, was a student 
in i865-'69. 

Messrs. Hugh and John Sisson, proprietors of the 
old-established marble and monument works, were 
students respectively in i865~'7o and i86y-'72. 

Mr. Harry A. Wroth, Chamber of Commerce, was a 
student in i865-'67. 

Mr. Robert F. Brent, lawyer, was a student in 1866- 
1867. 

Mr. Frank Gosnell, lawyer, was a student in i866-'69. 

Mr. Joseph R. Degenhardt, inspector, was a student in 
1866-71. 

Rev. W. S. Caughey, the esteemed Pastor of St. 
Stephen's Church, Washington, was a student during 
the years 1 866-' 74. 

Mr. Edward J. Stork, real estate, was a student in 
i866-'69. 

Mr. Wm. G. Weld, lawyer, was a student in i866-'69. 



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Dr. Jacob Arnold, physician in California, was a 
student in i865-'7i. 

Rev. Francis Barnum, S.J., son of the former pro- 
prietor of Barnum's Hotel, was a student in 1 864-' 68; 
after his ordination as priest he was a missionary in 
Alaska for several years amid great hardships; since his 
return to the United States he has published a diction- 
ary and grammar of Alaskan languages. 

Rev. John D. Boland, Pastor of St. Vincent's Church, 
North Front street, was a student in i867-'7o. 

Rev. Edward X. Fink, S.J., Rector of St. Aloysius' 
Church and Gonzaga College, Washington, was a student 
in 1 866-' 72; he was afterwards graduated at Georgetown. 

Mr. J. Stanley Fink, his brother, a well-known 
merchant, was a student in i867~'75. 

Rev. Peter Manning, Pastor of St. Andrew's Church, 
was a student in 1 867-' 68. 

Rev. Joseph I. Ziegler, S.J., now Professor of the 
Freshman class at Doyola, and previously many years 
professor at Fordham College and other Jesuit colleges, 
was a student in i866-'6c). 

Rev. Raphael V. O'Connell, S.J., professor in St. 
Joseph's College, Philadelphia, and formerly a professor 
for many years in other Jesuit colleges, was a student 
in i86q-'7o. 

Dr. Claude Van Bibber, a well-known physician, was 
a student in 1 865-' 68; he was afterwards graduated 
at Georgetown. 

Mr. Henry Russell, a lawyer in West Virginia, was a 
student in 1 866-' 68; he was afterwards graduated at 
Georgetown. 

Mr. William S. Myer, post-office official, was a student 
in 1 864-' 69. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 71 

Mr. Alphonsus L,. Jenkins, in business, was a student 
during the years 1 865-' 69. 

Messrs. F. William and Ignatius M. Dammann, in 
business, were students in the years i868-'72. 

Mr. Bernard J. Broadbent, in business, was a student 
during the years 1 869-' 77. 

Mr. Henry Walters, owner of the well-known art gal- 
lery on Mt. Vernon Place, was a student in i867-'68; he 
took part in a couple of performances by the Dramatic 
Association of the students, and attained the highest 
grade of merit in the class of Poetry at the mid-year ex- 
amination. Afterwards he went to continue his studies 
at Georgetown College, the venerable parent of Loyola. 
The newspapers have announced that he has provided 
at his own expense several free bathing-places for the 
people of Baltimore; also that he has bid for and obtained 
at the cost of a million dollars a collection of paintings 
and other objects of art in Rome, which are to be 
brought to this city. 

Before passing from the decade i860-' 70, perhaps a 

portion of a letter from a graduate of that period, now 

living thousands of miles away from Baltimore, may 

prove interesting: 

December 13, 1901. 

Dear Father: Your very delightful letter lay by several 
days until I had returned home from a short absence, and I have 
re-read it several times, dwelling upon the associations it begot. 
Dear me! how the old College has grown, and how much harder a 
time I would have had hammering my way through its curric- 
ulum if I had been there now-a-days instead of being an old- 
timer. It is the greatest pleasure to me to see my old training-ship 
right upon the crest of the wave, and to understand, as I do from 
the Catalogue, that she has spread her sails to the winds of every 
sea, and that those who go down to the great deep in her need not 
be afraid. Do you, perhaps, think that I have been oblivious 



72 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

of the old days, and that times bygone had passed from my 
ken? Not a bit of it! Many, many times I have thought of 
the old place and the old people, and they both shape them- 
selves in my mind in an atmosphere of extreme affection. 
Time after time in this far country, when persons ask me 
■where I was educated (or even if they don't), I claim my 
old privilege of your scholar, and I always claim all I can 
for the Church also, descanting largely upon the Primacy 
of America held by Baltimore, the very ancient ecclesiastical 
stronghold — and this, and that, and the other. Not that I am 
a Catholic, but my dear Padre, I am a Christian, and I do love 
to see people who are ostensibly on the right side, and who are 
willing to give up something to show it. The old letters "A. M. 
D. G." affect me strangely and in a manner very sweet. 

So you see that my feeling for you and all has something of the 
freshness of the boy, kept green, and not overwhelmed by all 
the storms which have swept over me since I passed your gates. 
For my life has been a strenuous one, and is not yet at peace. 
Those who keep watch on the outlines of civilization and life, 
meet things strangely and strongly, and besides much travel 
beforehand, I have been out in this new country more than 
twenty-five years. 

This is not coming to the main point of your letter, is it? But 
I know that it will be a pleasure to you to understand the truly 
affectionate feeling I have for Loyola and her own. My old 
Professors I fear to ask for; but how I should love to see dear old 
Father Mac, (McNerhany) — to make it just as short as I always 
did. . . . My dear Padre, commend me to the Rev. Presi- 
dent, and for yourself and the College, receive my affectionate 
regard. 

Very sincerely yours, 

I. R. B. 



IV. 



REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD STUDENT OF THE YEARS 
1836-65. 



Mr. Walter E. McCann, A.M., 1894, author and 
journalist, has kindly recorded for us the memories of his 
years at the College. 

OLD LOYOLA DAYS. 

The reminiscent period of life, which arrives before one is 
aware, is not altogether melancholy; for if it is sad to recall 
vanished youth and those who have passed away, and to be re- 
minded that one's own pathway is already twilighted and darken- 
ing, there is at least the pleasure of living over again in memory 
the acted scenes. 

In the midst of distance and recollection the incidents that 
perhaps were sober and commonplace enough, are idealized and 
take on the hue of romance. Vidi tantmn is a pregnant phrase, 
the pride of wisdom and experience, but the pang, too, of the 
pages closing, whose number we may almost count but dare not. 
\\ So the writer feels looking back to the beginning of his Loyola 
days — a very small boy — the youngest of so many — at school 
virtually for the first time. The outward aspect of the College 
surroundings is greatly changed. Where the array of houses 
stands on the east side of Calvert street, between Monument and 
Centre, was the then famous Hippodrome Lot, a wide and vacant 

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plain, where, before and after class, we loitered to play at for- 
gotten games. To this place came every year in the spring the 
circuses, and the tents were thrown up and the men and horses 
made bivouac. The ring was left behind as a sign and memorial 
of these picturesque Bedouins of the amusement world, and 
within its sweeping circle, which ever bore enchantment, many 
a thoughtless hour was beguiled away. Other houses now stand 
at the corner of Calvert and Madison streets, where there was 
then a hill from whose height there was a prospect far into the 
country; and here, too, we played and made venturous foray 
across the falls below, and on festival days and holidays rambled 
on to the chestnuted woods of legendary Belvidere. 

"Where are the snows of yester-year?" asks Villon. I do not 
know; but it seems to me that they were deeper and that the 
storms, as we trudged through them every morning at 8 o'clock, 
were whiter and wilder. They measured very nearly to my own 
head. There was Mass at which I served for years — never miss- 
ing — going across the porch into the little sacristy, and Father 
Miller there, awaiting, or very often dear old Father King. I 
wish boys could realize the momentous privilege of serving 
Mass — the rite, as Cardinal Newman says, so consoling, so 
piercing, so thrilling, so overcoming — the evocation of the 
Eternal. Yet we were careless and perfunctory enough. Well 
I remember one morning Father King, usually absorbed as he 
stood at the foot of the altar, suddenly catching the sound of a 
mispronunciation, his glance aside of surprise, and then, at 
the end taking me apart in that little sacristy and dwelling, so 
patiently and with his charming smile, upon the meaning of 
that Latin word and its significance when reached at the opening 
part of the Mass. 

In this sacristy I first saw Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick 
and felt the touch of his kindly hand upon my head. He was 
to sing the High Mass upon some great occasion, and before we 
went in, the Prefect, or whoever had charge of us, whispered: 
"You must kiss his ring." And so, as he stood preparing, I 
ventured up and was introduced, and he smiled gravely, and 
after I had made my obeisance, rested his fingers encouragingly 
for an instant upon my hair. His own noble, powerful head, 
and his steady, penetrating gaze, I shall never forget. 




Rev. Charles F. King, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 75 

The images and faces of the able and good men whom I saw 
at Loyola — they pass by in dreamy procession. I wish it were 
the rule to write biographies of the notable Jesuits; certainly 
there could be no more entertaining series. Each Province 
would have its own attractive story to tell. There was one whom 
I saw two or three times, and of whom I have heard much 
since — Father Fulton. The Presidents of Loyola were every one 
men of striking individuality. The first within my time was 
Father Early, with his intellectual aspect behind the glittering 
glasses and the little habit in the pulpit of holding thumb and 
forefinger together as he set forth the parts of his discourse. To 
this day I cannot speak or think of Father William F. Clarke 
without a certain awe — that slender, wiry figure and the drawn 
brows and the penetrating eyes! He was seldom without a book, 
and up and down the porch and through the long corridors he 
walked — a studious apparition. He was a man of ascetic life and 
of much learning. I remember when as a little boy I was told 
that Father Clarke had never read but three books. Three 
books — and he so deep and erudite! Why then, I wondered, the 
armful I was obliged to carry? What books were they in which 
was concentrated so much of wisdom and scholarship? They 
were the Bible, Shakespeare and Burke. Afterwards I learned 
that the impression among the boys was not altogether accu- 
rate—he had read but three books for the formation of his 
literary style. 

Father O'Callaghan, a dark, slight man, with features of 
Italian mould, was one of the gentlest and best of men; and I 
can see him now as he came into the class and we all stood up, 
and his deprecating smile and entreaty to sit again. Afterward 
he died a violent death at sea — hurt in a storm — and passed 
away with that quiet and heroic composure which seems the 
special characteristic of the Jesuits in the final hour every- 
where. And Father Ciampi, a handsome man of elegant pres- 
ence, and with just that little touch of Italian accent to make 
his speech piquant. 

The priests and scholastics — scholastics who afterward became 
priests — they were all interesting men. Mr. Henchy was of my 
time, dreaded by me because I had heard that to him alone was 
confided the custody of the cat-o'-nine-tails, with special au- 



76 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

thority delegated by the Pope, as I imagined, to use them on 
necessary occasions! Mr. Thomas Boone I remember particu- 
larly from his beautiful handwriting, upon which my own, 
alas! at a hopeless distance was modeled; and Mr. William 
Loague, so kind to me personally, and Mr. Tisdall, who had 
charge of the sanctuary. Mr. Cleary, pale and weak of chest, I 
do not forget. Now and then came Father Robert Brady, the 
future Provincial, tall and sinewy and with a deep voice. A 
little later there was Mr. Doonan, afterwards himself a Rector — 
the Civil War going on, and he anxious about his people at 
home in the South; and Mr. Nagle and Mr. Morgan. All of 
these afterward became priests, and it has been but a little while 
since Father Morgan completed his long term as President. 

There are few things pleasanter to recall in connection with 
life at the College than the Dramatic Association. The Jesuits 
have always encouraged the classic and wholesome drama; so, 
indeed, has the Catholic Church; and if at one time actors were 
out of favor, it was not on account of their occupation, but 
by reason of their lives, too often disorderly; so much so that 
even in the eyes of the English law, to this day unrepealed, 
they are "rogues and vagabonds." Hogarth, in a few strokes of 
his deathless pencil, tells the story too graphically. Happily, 
the social estate of the followers of Thespis has much improved, 
and in the modern, and particularly the contemporaneous 
chronicle, there are many honored names. 

Our first dramatic manager at Loyola was Mr. Daniel Ford, 
tall and pallid, with a sensitive, intellectual face — a man of much 
literary taste and a special enthusiasm for the stage. We gave 
Cardinal Wiseman's "Hidden Gem," and the Trial Scene from 
the "Merchant of Venice," in the latter of which I was called 
upon to figure as "Shylock. ' ' These performances were very suc- 
cessful. Then we gave "Hamlet," with Frederick Hack as the 
Prince — a judicious and clever performance, as he had the tem- 
perament for the part; and later "Richelieu." Our second man- 
ager was Father Jeremiah O'Connor, then a scholastic — a man of 
wonderful ardor and impetuosity in everything he undertook. 
He died a martyr to his sacred calling, after an accident in a 
tunnel in New York, administering to the injured until he him- 
self succumbed. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 77 

John Van Bibber, afterwards a well-known physician, was the 
"Baradas" and "Horatio" of our troupe; and many years later he 
went to Europe and made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Irving. 
Dr. Van Bibber was taken ill, and as he lay in bed Sir Henry, 
fatigued and harassed with travel, management and acting, came 
to see him. When he went away the careworn actor said: "It 
is not in some respects pleasant to be ill, but I rather envy you. 
I should like to see how it feels to lie abed for a few days." 

Richard Hamilton was our comedian, a very earnest, pleas- 
ant fellow, and unsuspicious. While we were getting up our 
Dramatic Society, and were experimenting with the material, 
there was to be a public exhibition, and he was chosen to recite 
Gloster's speech at the opening of "Richard III." — "Now is the 
winter of our discontent!" A few nights preceding the trial he 
went to the theatre to see Edwin Forest in the part. As Forest 
acted the character, before entering in his first scene the street 
in London, he spoke off the stage the first two or three lines, 

"Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York," 

making his appearance in haste and drawing on his gauntlet 
as he continued the soliloquy. The trial day at Loyola 
arrived; the hour, noon; and all the College boys and pro- 
fessors assembled. Hamilton, having seen Forest, felt con- 
fident of making a strong impression. Some of the waggish 
among us said beforehand by way of advice: "Now, Hamilton, 
all you need to do is to model yourself upon Forest. Don't 
wait until you get to the centre of the stage to speak your lines, 
but make your entrance reciting them as he did, and see how 
effective it will be." There was a stairway of some length lead- 
ing from the auditorium to the platform. Presently, after other 
recitations, the name of Richard Hamilton was called. We 
gave him a push of reminder, and up rose our unsuspecting 
friend from the body of the audience, and in a loud and exultant 
tone began: "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious 
summer by this sun of York!" 

The boys and professors were transfixed with astonishment at 
this abrupt outburst, and Hamilton striding up the aisle from 



78 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

his seat in the rear, continued the speech in a voice even more 
enthusiastic and high-pitched: 

"And all the clouds that lowered upon our house, 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried!" 

There was a shout of laughter, but absorbed in his purpose, 
poor Hamilton marched on until he reached the stairway, and as 
he began to mount, he exclaimed: 

"Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; 
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments!" 

By this time the audience was convulsed with laughter. Un- 
dismayed, and waving his arms, he strode on to the centre of the 
platform, his voice reaching a perfect yell as he declaimed the 
lines: 

"Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, 
Our dreaded marches to delightful measures!" 

It was too much; Fathers, scholastics and students almost unable 
to keep their seats, broke out into peal after peal of mirth, and 
the victim of this piece of waggery, bewildered at the spectacle, 
tried again and again to go on with the lines, every renewed 
effort bringing forth another shout. Finally the Prefect in 
charge required him to desist. 

Many are the little scenes of the bygone time that rise up — one 
of a day, some time before the Civil War, and of the crowded 
street and the fluttering banners in the air. We were gathered 
in the basement of the College, and standing at one of the win- 
dows, we peered through and saw his present Majesty of England 
passing by. He was then only a youth, slender and delicate; 
and seated in the open carriage, he bowed to right and left. 
There is little in the present portraits of the sturdy and almost 
truculent English Sovereign to remind one of that gentle, fair- 
haired Prince of Wales, with his courteous salute and appealing 
smile. 

Pictures of the playground return, the swings and the hori- 
zontal bars, and of the greatest athlete of them all, James 
Cassidy, who strangely enough, died very young of disease of 
the lungs. A year or so ago I went through the new and splendid 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 79 

indoor gymnasium at Loyola, and thought of our primitive 
apparatus of long before. Pictures arise, too, of the cosy winter 
mornings when there was a theme to write instead of lessons to 
recite, and of the drowsy spring afternoons with the windows 
up and the soft, fragrant winds blowing in, wooing us abroad. 
Pictures likewise of the dreaded examinations, and later of 
Commencement day and all the formality, bustle and excite- 
ment of breaking up and dispersal. 

These scenes are often unrolled, more vivid than the moving 
pictures of the cinematograph. They pass quickly, like those 
friezes that hastened by in De Quincey's burdened sleep. Here 
again are remembered images and faces, of Father Ward, with 
his troublesome throat, and Father Vanden Heuvel, thundering 
in the pulpit, and Father Ryder, with his splendid scenic face 
framed to display the emotions, and his superb voice, appearing 
suddenly to preach a retreat or to be the star feature of Lent. 

I do not forget the lay-brothers, one who cooked, and some- 
times gave us tarts out of the kitchen window. There was 
another who, it was said, was the only man in the Order who 
knew how to mend the ancient clock that still stands in the cor- 
ridor and strikes the quarters and the hours unfailingly, day and 
night. This wonderful old clock, there was something lofty and 
encouraging in its note. Good Friday and Holy Week! Shall 
I ever forget the change of routine in the Passion-time? the mys- 
tical and beautiful services of the Church in which I so often took 
part in that succession of days, the chants and the sad voices of 
the singers, and the bare altar and deserted tabernacle? 

Other days come back to me, the bright Christmas days that I 
spent at Loyola, when I early uprose to serve the first, splendid 
Mass which the Church celebrates on that day long before dawn. 
There was one when we remained at the College the whole of the 
night before. There was a day, too, which stands out, when we 
went upon a holiday excursion, a long day of endless pleasure, 
coming back at twilight, the curved moon attending us like a 
guard with a scimitar. Why do I remember these trifles so well, 
and of so long ago, when so many momentous things since have 
perished from mind? How is it that I still recall with something 
like intensity, the poor, demented negro whom we used to see 
going to High Mass on Sunday, whirling round and round all the 



80 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

way thither and all the way back? And why is there so vivid a 
recollection of the aged beggar-woman in a plaid cloak, said to 
be over ioo years old, who sat forever on the church steps, like a 
statue in its niche ? 

These memories return often, and return always with many 
more on the Sunday within the octave, when, as has been my 
custom every year for a long time, I attend the celebration of 
St. Ignatius' day. Alas, interesting as the sermon usually is on 
those occasions, I cannot always follow it, but find my thoughts 
wandering to the old times, the professors and the boys. It is a 
pleasant circumstance that of the many who were my close com- 
rades, I believe, with scarcely an exception, all turned out well 
and were successful men and made a creditable showing in life. 
So deep and so lasting was the impression made by the earnest 
and capable men who guided and taught us, who, no doubt, 
were often saddened by the waywardness and indifference with 
which we seemed to receive their lessons. 

Walter E. McCann. 



V. 



FROM FATHER EARLY'S FINAL DEPARTURE TO THE 

END OF FATHER KELLY'S PRESIDENTIAL TERM. 

1870-77. 



The next in order among the Presidents of Loyola 
College was Rev. Edward Henchy, S.J., who, however, 
was obliged to retire after six months on account of ill 
health. He died on the Eastern Shore of Maryland 
about 1895. He was succeeded in January, 1871, by 
Rev. Stephen A. Kelly, S.J., who was transferred to 
Baltimore from the position of Assistant Superior at 
Woodstock College, Md. He had been a number 01 
years professor at Georgetown and Gonzaga Colleges, 
D. C, and thus had much experience as an educator. 
He is remembered as a remarkably impressive preacher. 

Adjoining Loyola College is the Church of St. 
Ignatius; it was completed a year and a half after the 
College, and solemnly dedicated August 15, 1856. The 
President of the College is its Pastor ex officio, and 
other priests residing in the College are his assistants. 
It is plain and unattractive in external appearance; its 
length is too small in proportion to its width; yet within 
it is a very beautiful church. It was unique in the 
richness of its plaster-work, moulding and stucco-work. 

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It possesses three marble altars in exquisite taste. The 
grand main altar with its beautiful baldachin, inclosing 
an historical painting of St. Ignatius, could be said, per- 
haps, when first erected, to be the most unique altar in 
the country, and a type and model for others. The 
acoustic properties of the church are excellent. For these 
reasons, and on account of the devoted ministrations of 
the Fathers of the College, it has become dear to very 
many Catholics of Baltimore, whose warmest affections 
have twined themselves around its altars. 

Father Kelly, soon after his appointment as Rector, 
saw that it needed considerable repairs after a lapse of 
nearly a score of years. The ceiling had become inse- 
cure, the walls and plaster-work were covered with dust. 
The congregation responded liberally to his appeal, and 
the ceiling was securely braced, the plaster-work painted 
and in parts tastefully gilded, and the pews and wood- 
work painted, so that the church looked more chaste 
and beautiful than ever. 

The new Rector saw that the time had come for 
making a serious effort to pay the very large debt, 
over $130,000, which had accumulated, whose interest, 
together with a yearly ground rent of $1,400, was 
impoverishing the institution. He appealed to the 
friends of the Church and College, founded the Church 
Debt Association, and began the movement which at 
length resulted in liquidating the debt. 

In the Catalogue of the College for Father Kelly's first 
year the announcement is made that in addition to the 
Classical course the Faculty have judged it advisable to 
open a Commercial or English course, comprising four 
classes, for the benefit of the students whose parents or 
guardians do not wish them to study Eatin and Greek. 




Rev. Stephen A. Kelly, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 83 

During his term of office six public exhibitions were 
given by the students, consisting of lectures on various 
subjects of Natural Science; two classes finished their 
course to graduation as Bachelors of Arts; the College 
celebrated in 1877 its Silver Jubilee of twenty -five years 
of existence. 

At the annual Commencement, June 28th, 1871, some 
of the pieces spoken were: "Society," Louis M. Hast- 
ings; "Indian Legend," Edward X. Fink; "Human 
Destiny," Frank P. Woodside; "War and Its In- 
fluences," Alexander Hill; "Death of Marquette," John 
B. O'Neill. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was con- 
ferred on Louis M. Hastings, Alexander Hill and Frank 
P. Woodside. The first is a lawyer in Chicago, the sec- 
ond a veteran physician, and the third a bank official in 
Baltimore. 

On June 24th, 1872, an exhibition was given in the Col- 
lege Hall by the class of Natural Philosophy and 
Chemistry, at which the following lectures were given 
by students: "Electric Spark," Lincoln W. Marston; 
"Water Mechanically and Chemically Considered," 
Charles Molloy; "Hydrogen," W. Chapman Williams; 
"Oxygen," Edward X. Fink. 

At the Commencement on June 26th, of the same 
year, some of the pieces spoken were: "Vesuvius," 
Frank S. Hambleton; "Ode to the Ocean," Henry St. 
A. O'Neill; "Martyrdom of St. Cecilia," Denis Dono- 
hue; "The Glory of Athens," Edward X. Fink. 

On June 23d, 1873, an exhibition in Natural Science 
was given in the Hall, consisting of the following lec- 
tures by students: "Theories of Light," William F. 
Bevan; "Practical Uses of Light," Jacob Goodman; 
"Colors Produced by Affinity," Martin Oppenheimer; 
"Light, a Source of Amusement," Edward Flaherty. 



84 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

At the Commencement on June 25th, the same year, 
some of the addresses were: "The Nameless Grave," 
Robert Hayden; "Penitence and Despair," William F. 
Bevan; "Washington and Andre," William Dunkinson; 
"The Rome of Pius IX.," Denis Donohue. 

At the Commencement held on Wednesday, June 
24th, 1874, some of the addresses were: "Fair Balti- 
more," Charles B.O'Donnell; "The Stratagem," George 
B. Connoly; "American literature," Robert Hayden; 
"The Maryland Line," William H. Dunkinson. 

On June 28th, 1875, the Loyola Literary Society of 
the students gave a literary entertainment in the Hall, 
at which the following pieces were delivered: original 
essay on "Andrew Hofer," by Rufus C. Justis; reading 
of selections from George Miles' "Inkerman," William 
D. S. Beam; original essay on "Pagan and Christian 
Poetry," William B. Neale; "Gualberto's Victory," by 
K. C. D., declaimed by V. Howard Brown; declamation 
of "Spartacus to the Roman Envoys," (Sargent), by 
Oscar Wolff; original poem on "The Wreck of the 
Schiller," by Joseph L. Mackin. Music in the intervals. 
Then followed a debate on the question, "Has the United 
States attained the Zenith of her Greatness?" The 
affirmative side was championed by Edward T. Flaherty 
and L- Ernest Neale, and the negative by William F. 
Bevan and Charles O' Donovan. 

At the Commencement held June 30th, of the same 
year, some of the addresses were: "Memory," William 
F. Bevan; "The Spirit of Change," Dennis W. Donohue; 
"The Ruins of Tyre," Charles W. Schoolfield; "The 
Philosophy of Communism," Melchor G. Cockey; "Crux 
de Cruce," V. Howard Brown. The degree of Bachelor 
of Arts was conferred on William F. Bevan, Edward T. 



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Flaherty and John S. Patterson. Mr. Bevan is now pro- 
prietor of the large stone-works at Waverly, Mr. Flaherty 
is dead, and Mr. Patterson is in the City Hall, Assistant 
City Engineer. 

At the annual Commencement of 1876, June 28th, 
some of the addresses were: "A Mother's Constancy," 
Oscar Wolff; "Garcia Moreno," E. Ernest Neale; "Inde- 
pendence Day," Melchor G. Cockey; "Midas," V. 
Howard Brown. A diploma in the English department 
was bestowed upon James P. Wall, Joseph E. Mackin, 
Vincent P. Eombard and Rufus C. Justis. 

An exhibition in Natural Science was given in the Hall, 
June 25th, 1877, consisting of these lectures by students: 
"Electricity," E- Ernest Neale; "Chemical Analysis," 
W. Irving Hoen. 

At the Commencement, June 27th, of the same year, 
the following were some of the addresses: "The 
Indian's Prophecy," Oscar Wolff; "The Children's 
Banquet," Wm. J. O'Brien; "Loyola's Silver Jubilee," 
Harry I. Brady; "Our Basin," John V. Johnson; "Story 
of the Silent Tongue," E. Ernest Neale. A diploma in 
the English department was bestowed on John B. Dunn 
and John V. Johnson. 

The College prospered under Father Kelly's equable 
government; and the students of that date remember 
him with genuine respect. He was relieved of his bur- 
den as President in October, 1877. He has been now 
for several years assistant Pastor of St. Aloysius' Church 
in Washington. He was born in Ireland in 1833, and 
has lived in the United States since his boyhood. 

Under him in 1 874-' 75, as Professor of Natural Science 
and Mathematics at Eoyola, was Rev. James Major, 
S.J., a distinguished mathematician and astronomer. 
He had been Professor of Natural Philosophy, Chem- 
istry and Astronomy before at the College in i863~'64. 



86 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

He was an Irishman by birth, and came to the United 
States when young. Before 1850 he had been Professor 
of Mathematics in the United States Navy, and while 
exercising that function cruised along the shores of the 
Mediterranean in the school-ship, and had an audience 
of Pope Gregory XVI. in Rome with other officers of 
the Navy. Afterwards he was appointed to a lucrative 
and honorable position as Astronomer in the Government 
Observatory in Washington. He led a single life, and 
lived with near relations whom he supported. At 
length, when things had been so arranged that they no 
longer depended on him, he resigned his position at the 
Observatory, gave up all worldly advantages from desire 
of a more perfect life, and entered the Novitiate of the 
Society of Jesus in Frederick, Md., in 1859, when he 
was already past forty-five years. After making his 
ecclesiastical studies and being ordained priest, he was 
employed for many years as Professor of Natural Science 
and Mathematics at Georgetown, Worcester (Mass.) and 
Loyola Colleges, and then in exercising the sacred min- 
istry. Many persons came to him with ailments of 
various kinds, over whom, in the simplicity of his faith, 
he would read the prayers of the Church; and it has been 
often said that in this way he worked miracles. He was a 
holy priest; and although he knew the ways of the world 
well and in his early life had acquired the manners of 
elegant society, he was entirely unworldly in his desires 
and tastes. He had a calm, philosophic temper of mind, 
a cheerful, sunny spirit, and the genuine wit of an Irish- 
man when he wished to show it. He once told the present 
writer something that stamped him as a notability, — 
that in his early life in New York he had four rooms 
rented on Nassau street, and not needing two of them on 
the ground floor, sub-rented them to James Gordon Ben- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 87 

nett, Sr., who with one assistant started in them the New 
York Herald as a penny-sheet, the same journal which 
has since attained such popularity and success. Father 
Major died in Providence, R. I., in 1898, at the age 
of 85. 

Near the end of Father Kelly's term of office Rev. Peter 
L,. Miller died at the College. He had been Professor of 
Natural Science or of Mathematics and French for several 
years at the period of the Civil War, Professor of French 
for a couple of years a decade later, and many years chap- 
lain of the students. He seemed to be gentleness and 
kindness personified, and during his long ministry in 
hearing confessions in St. Ignatius' Church was a boon 
to many penitents, to whom he made the hard duty of 
confession easy and pleasant. A pious lady once brought 
her little boy to him, whom she wished to make his first 
confession, to break the ice, so to say, and to learn to 
overcome early all repugnance to that solemn Catholic 
duty. Father Miller entered into her views at once, 
smiled his pleasant smile on him, took him into his own 
compartment of the confessional and sat him on his knee, 
and with his own cheek to the little fellow's, led him 
through his first confession. He was a man wholly with- 
out guile and of great innocence of life, entirely free 
from unpleasant austerity of manner. For many years 
he was in charge of the colored people and labored for 
their welfare with great earnestness and devotion. 

In October, 1863, the Universalist Church at the cor- 
ner of Calvert and Pleasant streets, was bought by the 
Fathers of the College for the use of the colored people 
of Baltimore. February 21, 1864, this church was sol- 
emnly dedicated by Very Rev. H. B. Coskery, Vicar- Gen- 
eral, as St. Francis Xavier's Catholic Church. On that 
occasion Solemn High Mass was sung by Father Miller 



88 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

and a sermon preached by Father Michael O'Connor, 
SJ. , former Bishop of Pittsburg. On the following Sun- 
day, February 28th, Father Miller sang Mass again and 
Father O'Connor preached. This was, we believe, the 
first Catholic church in the United States appropriated 
specially for the use of the colored people. Father Mil- 
ler remained its devoted Pastor until it was given up at 
their own request to the Josephite priests from Mill Hill, 
England, about 1873- He died at Loyola in September, 
1877, at the age of 57. He was a native of Belgium but 
had lived in the United States thirty years. 

Mr. Timothy O'Leary, S.J., was an able and popular 
Professor of Classics, Literature and Mathematics at 
the College during the years i87i-'74. After his ordi- 
nation as priest, he was, for a number of years, the able 
Professor of Philosophy at the colleges at Worcester, 
Mass., and Fordham, N. Y., as he has now been for 
several years at Georgetown. He was also the esteemed 
Pastor for a number of years at the old misson at Cone- 
wago, near McSherrystown, Pa. 

It is an honor to the College to record that, for two 
years of Father Kelly's term, one of its instructors was 
Mr. Thomas D. Beaven, just after his graduation at 
Holy Cross College in Massachusetts. After leaving 
Loyola he pursued his ecclesiastical studies and was 
ordained priest; and in course of time, on account of his 
merit, was made Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, 
Mass., in October, 1892. He has fulfilled the duties of 
his exalted station with ability and prudence, and with 
the universal approval of his flock. He appeared in 
Baltimore in the autumn of 1891 as one of the two 
assistant Bishops to Cardinal Gibbons in our Cathedral 
at the consecration of Bishop Conaty, of the Catholic 
University, who had been a priest of his diocese. 



VI. 



PRESIDENTIAL TERM OF FATHER McGURK, 
1877-'83. 



In the autumn of 1877 Rev. Edward McGurk, S.J. 
was appointed President. He was young in years; and 
the only fault which the Archbishop of Baltimore had 
to upbraid him with on being introduced to him was 
his youth — an innocent fault which time corrected for 
him each day. He was born in the City of New York 
in October, 1841. His parents afterwards removed to 
Philadelphia, where he attended St. Joseph's College; 
he entered the Society of Jesus at Frederick, Md., in 
July, 1857. Before and after his ordination as priest, 
he was professor for nine years at the Jesuit Colleges at 
Worcester and Boston, Mass., besides being Vice-Pres- 
ident of the former institution, so that be came to his 
new position at Loyola with ample experience of the 
workings of colleges. 

Father McGurk is to be credited with a number of 
improvements in the College. In the scholastic year 
i857-*58, the L,oyola L,iterary Society, a debating 
society of the students, had been established. He 
introduced a public debate on some learned or practical 
subject once a year to be conducted by four of the 

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90 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

students; he who was adjudged the best debater by 
gentlemen not of the Faculty, selected as judges, received 
a gold medal on Commencement day. After the 
first public debate, May 10, 1881, the judges, promi- 
nent lawyers of Baltimore, addressed a letter to Father 
McGurk, from which we extract the following: 

The discussion was very interesting, ably managed on both 
sides, and gave great gratification to the undersigned as well as 
to the large and appreciative audience assembled on the occa- 
sion. 

We take occasion to add that the proficiency and attainments 
of the young combatants give evidence of a careful and efficient 
method of instruction, and reflect the highest credit upon the 
Professors of Loyola College. Such results are the best proof 
of the effectiveness and high excellence of the institution which 
has fostered them. 

Then are appended the names, A. Leo Knott, D. 
Gans, B. F. O'Connor, Thomas Whelan, Henry F. 
Mann. 

The Loyola Literary Society was organized in 
September, 1857; its object was stated to be the cultiva- 
tion of eloquence by the practice of debate, and the 
promotion of knowledge, especially of history. In its 
first year of existence, as the Catalogue of the College 
records, Rev. Jos. M. Ardia, S.J. was President; A. A. 
Egan, Vice-President; C. B. Tiernan, Secretary; W. J. 
Tyson, Treasurer; H. F. Placide, Librarian. Members: 
T. E. Sullivan, F. A. Gibbons, R. H. McKim, F. C. 
Jenkins, T. W. Jenkins, J. Ford, J. I. Gross, R. H. Lee, 
J. W. Brown, F. C. Neale, W. Devries, W. Myers, W. 
F. Baugher, R. M. McSherry, W. Yardley. Hono- 
rary Members: S. Teackle Wallis, J. G. Curlett, A. 
McLaughlin, F. A. McGirr, J. R. Randall, W. F. 



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Gleeson, W. Warner, T. P. Huger, B. F. Milholland, 
M.D., and R. Espin, M.D. It is a pathetic thought 
that a large proportion of these gentlemen are now dead. 
The meetings of the Society were held once a week, 
outside of class hours. The President is appointed each 
year by the Reverend President of the College. In 
Father McGurk's time, and for some years afterward, 
the exercises for each meeting were, first, the reading 
by one of the members of a literary selection, then dec- 
lamation of an oratorical piece; next the debate, con- 
ducted by four members, two maintaining one side of a 
question and the others the opposite side. One of the 
officers was the Critic, whose duty it was to write a 
commentary on the character of the entire literary ses- 
sion, and to read this at the next meeting. As the Con- 
stitution says, he was to perform this duty without fear 
or favor, and would enjoy immunity from all strictures, 
being responsible to the President alone. It will be of 
interest to enumerate some of the subjects chosen for 
debate. For instance: 

Resolved: That the American Indians have a right to the soil ; 
that Brutus was justified in assassinating Caesar; that Augustus 
was justified in assuming the supreme power; that General Lee 
was justified in taking command of the Southern Army; that the 
flooding of the Sahara Desert would be beneficial to Europe; that 
Athens under Pericles was in a more flourishing condition than 
Rome under Augustus Caesar; that Charlemagne contributed 
more towards the Revival of Letters than Alfred the Great; that 
the Crusades were beneficial to Europe; that the acquittal of 
Warren Hastings was just. 

Perhaps some selections from the reports of the Critics 
will prove interesting. A Critic during the scholastic 
year i882-'83 writes: 



92 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Although we agree with Shakespeare that brevity is the soul 
of wit, still we think that the reader at our last meeting might 
have chosen some more lengthy piece. He took the floor with- 
out any hesitation; his position was graceful, his delivery only 
fair, his conception of the piece correct; but we must say that 
it showed great lack of preparation. His selection was ill- 
adapted to bring out his powers. The speaker, on the contrary, 
chose a piece well suited to bring out his abilities, and showed 
assiduous preparation. He has a strong, sonorous voice, but 
failed to modulate it. A voice which continues for any length 
of time in one key will soon tire the hearer. On the whole, he 
was much too tame. The piece requires energy and action. 
The debate, for the most part, was carried on in a listless man- 
ner. Few strong arguments were advanced — little or no em- 
phasis was laid on them. 

Critic of Loyola Literary Society. 

A Critic writes in the scholastic year 1 8 84-' 85: 

The Critic thinks the reader at our last meeting, in some parts 
of the reading did not enter into the proper spirit which the 
piece required, and that he paused here and there where there 
were no pauses. The gentleman's voice also was a little monot- 
onous. His gestures were graceful and well adapted; and not- 
withstanding his faults, he is a good speaker and delivered his 
piece quite well. The speaker at our last meeting should be 
very careful in making his gestures; one should never start to 
make a gesture and then draw back the hand. Again, the gen- 
tleman does not speak loud enough, he should speak much 
louder and much slower. The gentleman should throw off the 
timidity which he has and have more confidence in himself. 

"When can their glory fade? 
O the wild charge they made!" 

These words of Tennyson flashed into the Critic's mind as he 
listened to the gentlemen who argued so courageously in the ex- 
citing debate of our last meeting, concerning the prohibition of 
the liquor trade. The first gentleman on the affirmative prom- 
ises to become an excellent debater. He rose from his seat 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 93 

with the confidence of a veteran, and started out by telling what 
was meant by "local option." But unfortunately he gave very 
weak arguments to prove that "local option" was beneficial. The 
first gentleman on the negative also showed great abilities in the 
efforts which he made. He had very good arguments and seems 
to know pretty well how to arrange them. But he partly spoiled 
his debate by having to read from his paper. He had not enough 
of animation in bringing out his arguments. The second affir- 
mative proceeded to give a long statement of the evils arising 
from the sale of liquor and its use — the ruin it had brought in so 
many places. Now the Critic is quite certain that the gentle- 
man's opponents would have been willing to admit almost every- 
thing that he said. But he did not prove that "local option" pre- 
vented the evils caused by liquor. The second negative seemed 
confident of success as he came boldly to the front. He cer- 
tainly proved that he prepared his debate well, for he had some 
elegant arguments and had his debate well memorized. The 
Critic thinks it was very greatly owing to this gentleman's argu- 
ments that the subject was decided in the negative. The gen- 
tleman should be very careful, however, in speaking not to say 
anything which might cast a blot on his whole speech. For 
instance, it was very unbecoming in the speaker, in the course 
of his speech, to call the State of Maine by a very contemptuous 
name; and we are sure he got no credit for this from the Literary 
Society. 

Critic Loyola Literary Society. 

The Critic is appointed each month. Of late years 
the reading and declamation of selected pieces have been 
omitted, and the exercise that occupies the Society is 
the debate. How good its work has been, is shown by 
the number of excellent public debates which its mem- 
bers have given during the last decade of our half cen- 
tury. The gold medal awarded each year to the student 
who is best in these public debates has a most useful 
effect in stimulating the debaters, and great thanks are 
due to Mr. Austin Jenkins, who has presented this 
medal perpetually, for his well-bestowed gift. 



94 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Father McGurk introduced during trie winter season 
a yearly series of instructive entertainments in the Hall 
of the College for its patrons, consisting of lectures by 
men of ability, alternating with dramatic readings or 
similar exercises by the students. Twice during his 
term of office part of the Commencement exercises was a 
Latin drama beautifully acted by the students. Re- 
peatedly discourses on various subjects of Natural 
Science were given in public by the students. In the 
course of the academic year i88i'-82 they gave to the 
public in the College Hall an elaborate exhibition in 
Mental and Moral Philosophy, partly in Latin and partly 
in English, consisting of disputations and essays. 
Father McGurk induced friends of the College to give 
funds for the purchase each year of a number of medals 
for the most deserving students. He gave the degree of 
A.B. to one class who had continued their course to 
completion. 

Through his exertions the Church was painted again 
and more richly gilded, and numerous gas jets were 
placed near the ceiling, with an electrical arrangement 
to light them at once. 

At the annual Commencement, June 26th, 1878, some 
of the discourses were: "Our Monuments," John R. 
McFee; "Death of Moses," Joseph Thompson; "Our 
Language," Joseph J. Kelly; "Honesty the Best Policy," 
rendered by Thomas Le Brou as "Alfred," Joseph Gahan 
as "Paul," and John P. O'Ferrall as "Mr. Flint." 

At the annual Commencement, June 25, 1879, * n the 
Academy of Music, three discourses were delivered: 
"Maryland, Her Statesmen," John R. McFee; "Mary- 
land, Her Literature," James D. Cotter; "Maryland, 
Lessons of the Past," Walter D. Gerke; also two exper- 




Rev. Edward A. McGurk, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 95 

imental lectures on "Oxygen" and "The Air We 
Breathe," by John McDermott and Robert J. Rainey. 

At the Commencement held June 30, 1880, in the 
Academy of Music, the discourses were the following: 
"Poetry, the Handmaid of Religion," James D. Cotter; 
"Those Irish Tears," A. J. Elder Mullan; "Art and 
Religion in Ancient Times," Thomas E. Stapleton; "Art 
and Religion in Modern Times," John R. McFee. 

At the Commencement of June 29, 1881, in the 
Academy of Music, the following was the programme: 
"Religion and Chemistry," a critique, James F. Daw- 
son; "Influence of His Time on Chaucer," James F. 
Dunn; "Aims of Oratory," John R. McFee; "Triumphs 
of Oratory," James D. Cotter. 

At the annual Commencement held in the Academy 
of Music, June 28, 1882, the following discourses on the 
Scholastic Philosophy were delivered; "Introductory," 
John J. Farrell; "Philosophy and Science," James F. 
Dawson; "Philosophy and Society," James D. Cotter; 
"Philosophy and the Individual," John R. McFee. The 
degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on James D. 
Cotter, James F. Dawson, John J. Farrell, John R. 
McFee. Mr. Cotter, who, the two previous years, won 
the medal for the yearly public debate, is now a member 
of the legal profession. Mr. Dawson is now Rev. 
Father Dawson, SJ., Professor of Philosophy at Wood- 
stock College, Md.; he was for several years Professor 
of Natural Science at Georgetown College or Boston 
College. Mr. Farrell is in business, and Mr. McFee is 
a lawyer in the West. The Mayor honored the Col- 
lege by his presence at the Commencement. Says the 
Catholic Mirror in its notice : 

Mayor William Pinkney Whyte (former U. S. Senator and 
Governor), in a brief address expressed himself well pleased at 



96 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

the scholarly manner in which the graduates had acquitted 
themselves, and gratified at the system of education which led 
to such satisfactory results. 

The subject of the annual Prize Debate held June n, 
1883, was: "Resolved, That Centralization of Power is 
hostile to the spirit of the American Constitution." 
The judges were the Hon. Wm. M. Merrick, Hon. W. 
J. O'Brien and Dr. D. I. McKew. 

The subject of the public debate held June 16, 1884, 
was: "Resolved, That the system of Trial by Jury should 
be abolished." The judges were Hon. George W. 
Brown, Hon. William A. Fisher and Gen. Bradley T. 
Johnson, who awarded the prize to Charles J. Bouchet. 

At the Commencement held June 24, 1885, at the 
Concordia Opera House, an historical drama in five acts, 
entitled "King Alfred," was rendered by the students; 
it was written by two of the professors, Messrs. Henry 
Van Rensselaer and Wm. J. Stanton, S.J. A graduate 
who witnessed it says it was very meritorious, and was 
received with much praise. Some of the students who 
took part were Albert G. Brown, Francis G. Rosensteel, 
Alfred J. Shriver, Bernard J. Goodwin, Wm. J. Gallery, 
Chas. J. Bouchet, Wm. S. Boone, Denis C. Keenan, 
Joseph T. Prevost, Henry F. Cassidy, Chas. N. Raley. 

A pretty incident happened in the spring of 1885. 
One of the students in First Humanities (Freshman), 
after Mr. Cleveland's first inauguration bethought him- 
self to translate his inaugural address into Latin. The 
student being diligent and talented, his work was well 
done, and attracted attention in the College and among 
friends outside, so much so that word of it was conveyed 
to the President by Mr. A. Leo Knott, Assistant Post- 
master-General, who attended St. Ignatius' Church. 



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Mr. Cleveland became highly interested, and sent word 
that the student must come to see him with the Presi- 
dent of the College, Father McGurk, and present him 
the specimen of classical philology. Accordingly, at a 
time appointed, Father McGurk, Mr. Knott and Master 
Bartholomew Randolph, the translator, were admitted to 
a very pleasant and cordial audience at the White House; 
and Mr. Cleveland received his transformed inaugural 
address with thanks, and promised that it should be filed 
away among the archives of the Executive Mansion. 
The translator did not enter politics or diplomacy, but 
the Catholic priesthood, and is now Rev. Bartholomew 
Randolph, CM., Professor in St. John's College, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 

After a very successful administration Father McGurk 
was transferred in August, 1885, to the National Capital 
as Rector of St. Aloysius' Church and Gonzaga College, 
where he fulfilled the duties of his office with the same 
success and well-deserved popularity as in Baltimore. He 
was afterward made President of Holy Cross College in 
Massachusetts, and completed there the splendid new 
building. After having had a couple of premonitory 
strokes, he died at the College villa near New Bedford, 
Mass., in July, 1896, at the age of 54. He had per- 
formed his duties as Rector of St. Ignatius' Church and 
Loyola College with ability and fidelity; he was a man 
of refined scholarship, was a very good and earnest 
preacher, and his native piety and goodness shone forth 
in a charm of manner that won many hearts and keeps 
his memory still green in Baltimore. 

During his presidential term in April, 1883, died 
at Loyola Mr. Charles C. Lancaster, S.J., a man of very 
worthy character. He was a native of Charles County, 



9 8 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

in our State, and possessed the old-time Maryland 
courtesy. When he was a young Jesuit scholastic at 
Georgetown College he became afflicted with a serious 
chronic ailment of the head, which always seemed to 
baffle the skill of his physicians, and withheld his supe- 
riors from ever ordaining him and burdening him with 
the obligations of a priest. Through his sound business 
capacity, however, he led a very useful life, as he had 
served for over thirty years as Procurator or financial 
manager for the Eastern Province of the Society of 
Jesus. He lived at Loyola College in that capacity 
from i860 until his death. He was a man of sincere 
religious spirit, of great patience in his sufferings and 
kind consideration for others. He had won the esteem 
of the business men with whom he had dealings, on ac- 
count of his business uprightness and high character. 

Rev. Harmar C. Denny, S.J., was associated with 
Father McGurk and with Father Kelly at Loyola College 
for several years. He was a native of Pittsburg and a 
convert to our Faith. He was at one time a priest in 
the diocese of Cardinal Manning in England and enjoyed 
his special familiarity and confidence, so much so, that 
he was sent by him to the United States in 1866 to solicit 
contributions for the erection of the grand cathedral in 
London. After having returned to England, he came back 
permanently to his native land, and entered the Society 
of Jesus at Frederick, in April, 1871. A few years after- 
ward he was sent to Loyola, and at one time was the 
amiable Vice-President; but he is remembered especially 
for his devoted ministrations in the Church. He was a 
preacher of exceptional note; his sermons were calm, 
natural, earnest, breathing sincere Catholic faith and 
devotion; and they were replete with original and beau- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 99 

tiful illustration, by which the truths of Faith were 
made interesting, clear and, as it were, tangible. His 
kindness and devotedness to the children and to the needy 
and distressed, as well as his gentle and courteous dis- 
position, won many hearts and still inspire many kind 
inquiries about him in Baltimore. After leaving Balti- 
more in 1880, he was placed in a more important field 
for his ministry, at St. Francis Xavier's Church in the 
heart of New York City; and there he continued his 
zealous labors until five or six years ago they brought on 
a sudden failure of his health and vigor, from which he 
recovered to some extent afterwards. He is now at Wood- 
stock College, and attracts all around him by his char- 
acteristic gentleness and courtesy. The wish of his 
Baltimore friends is certainly ad multos annos — may he 
have yet many years of life. 

Rev. Samuel Cahill, S.J., who had been an instructor 
at the College in i867-'68, was the earnest Vice-Presi- 
dent and Treasurer in 1 88 1 -'82. He was afterward Presi- 
dent of Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, and has 
been for some years associate Pastor of Holy Trinity 
Church, Georgetown, D. C. 



VII. 



REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD STUDENT OF THE YEARS 

1880-'87. 



Mr. Charles J. Bouchet, of the Baltimore bar, A.B. 
1887, A.M. 1891, has kindly contributed the following 
reminiscences of his College days: 

What are the impressions of my College days spent at Loyola 
is an interesting question to myself, for it takes my thoughts 
back into a region -where I see the beginnings of all that has 
made my life what it is. How it can be a question of any 
peculiar interest to others I do not know; but if my short story 
bears with it a single helpful suggestion for any reader, I shall 
be satisfied. 

It certainly is difficult to realize that fifteen years have passed 
since I finished at Loyola; and as for myself, I never pass the 
large, handsome new College building without a tender and kindly 
remembrance of the old one, where my schoolboy days were 
spent. But the memories of the past gather so many things into 
themselves, that I will not pretend to say how much that still 
lingers with me belongs to the place, how much to the tutors 
and my fellow pupils. 

When I entered the College in 1880, Rev. Edward A. McGurk 
was President. From my first contact with him, his personality 
made a deep impression on me. He was, I should say, an 
educating force, he was magnetic and inspiring, he had a strong 
moulding hand and an informing spirit. He was kind, pleasing, 
calm and sincere, and he had every qualification for a college 

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President. To be under his influence was an education in itself. 
No one could know him without being stimulated by his 
example as a scholar, and incited to fresh thought and new 
impulse by his words. The worst punishment that could befall us 
was the fact of being sent to his room on some charge, so great 
was our regard for him. The influence of his life and 
character is well known to every student of Loyola College 
during the period of his administration. He showed in his 
every movement his earnest and heartfelt desire for the welfare 
of the College and his boys; keenly and personally did he feel 
their any failure, while broadest was his smile at their success. 
He was one of the noblest and truest of men, and his manly, 
moral influence over the whole College was remarkable. 

"His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, This was a man!" 

Father William H. Carroll was the Vice-President in those 
days, and if ever a man had the faculty of handling youth and 
endearing himself to them, it was he. Boys and young men 
were apparently his study, and he in return was their idol I can 
say that I never heard a student around old Loyola speak a 
harsh word of him. He was a man's man, and always had the 
youth with him. His young men's Sodality was a splendid suc- 
cess, and is even talked about to this day. I might say his work 
with the youth and young men was the beginning of what is 
now known as the Men's League, an organization which was 
splendidly carried on for a number of years after by dear 
Father Francis Ryan of tender remembrance, and is at the 
present time the just pride of Father Francis X. Brady. As I 
have said, Father Carroll endeared himself to all young men by 
his word and work. To day, even though he is an invalid, I am 
informed that the Georgetown College students are devoted 
to him, and that he is to them now what he was to the old 
boys at Loyola in my day, their solace and delight. 

The Prefect of the College was the present Father Dooley, 
and what he is to-day he was then, solid as a rock from head to 
foot. His word was law, and everyone heeded it from John R. 
McFee, the biggest man in the College, to Felippe Broadbent, 



102 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

the smallest boy in the Preparatory class. Always working hard 
himself, everyone around him had to do the same; but he and 
the other professors stimulated the boys in such a uniformly 
happy way that the burden was not fully felt. Many a time 
since our college days has he been the topic of conversation 
among the old boys, and their respect and esteem he has ever 
held; and to-day their verdict is the same as of old, he was a 
"brick." 

And so I may go down along the line of teachers without 
wishing to be unduly Laudator temporis acti; and the names of 
Messrs. Brownrigg, Quigley, Williams, O'Rourke, Charles Jones, 
McNamara, Cummings, Woods, Gasson, John Brosnan and Patrick 
Mulry, and of Fathers Shandelle, Ward and Jerome Daugherty, 
will show the calibre of men who taught at Loyola in the 
eighties. The last, but not the least, of them was Father Ardia, 
"the noblest Roman of them all," who had us in Philosophy. 
The clearness and precision of his explanations, and a certain 
peculiar faculty, which I cannot describe, of impressing what 
he said so that it could not pass from the mind of the student, 
distinguished him. Clear and analytic in his own thinking, he 
insisted on analyzed and logical thought in his pupils. By some 
accident I became acquainted with him in a friendly way, as I 
had not been in an equal degree with my other professors. As 
an instructor and as a friend, to the present day he has had 
great influence over me. 

All of the teachers worked for the pupil's intellectual and 
moral improvement. It was not a question of putting in so 
many hours in class — they were not mere bread-winners. "What 
is more noble than to form the minds of youth?" says St. John 
Chrysostom. This was the general object of all the professors, 
though each one had his own particular characteristic method 
of doing it. The society of some of them has been one of the 
chief factors in rny education, both in college and afterwards, 
and one of the chief delights of life. On the whole, I think 
that any student in Loyola who was not graduated with a mind 
well disciplined for entering upon any worthy career, was him- 
self greatly at fault. 

The classes, then, as now, were eight in number, four of them 
being strictly preparatory. The College, indeed, consists of an 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 103 

Academic department and a College proper. The union is not 
without its advantages. It allows at least that unity of design 
which most educators are agreed should exist between the 
lower and the upper schools. It tends, perhaps, also to strengthen 
the bond between teacher and pupil, between schoolmates as 
opposed to classmates. There was at Loyola none of that sin- 
gular class spirit, which marks, and often mars, so many Amer- 
ican colleges. True, it would not be tolerated, but equally true, 
it never existed in my time. 

The College course, which leads up to the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts, consists of four classes, corresponding to the Freshman, 
Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, but known in the Jesuit 
colleges as, First Humanities, Poetry, Rhetoric and Philosophy. 
During the early part of the course, the student's attention is 
principally directed to acquiring an accurate knowledge of his 
native tongue and of elementary mathematics. At the same time 
the rudiments of the Latin and Greek tongues are mastered. In 
the first year of the College course he perfects his knowledge of 
the grammar of these languages, that he may have the tools of 
literary work under his control. He then devotes himself more 
particularly to the cultivation of his literary tastes and powers. 
The year of Poetry is given to the training of his imagination, 
while in the Rhetoric year, the greatest speeches and the prin- 
ciples of oratory are studied. At the same time higher math- 
ematics and natural science in some of its branches have been 
continued. The highest class is given to the study of logic, 
metaphysics and ethics in rational philosophy, with natural 
science, especially physics and mechanics or dynamics. 

The merit of this plan seems to consist in its symmetry, its 
simplicity and its elasticity. It does not crowd the pupil's mind, 
while it gives him a taste for study and trains him to think. 
Certainly it has stood the test of time and success; for, substan- 
tially the same to-day as originally laid down by the Order, this 
Ratio Studiorum has produced as many men eminent in every 
branch of human learning as any other system in the world. It 
does not teach a man everything; it does not try; that would be 
folly within the limits of any ordinary college course; but it 
does teach him to teach himself. 

It was my good fortune to be a member of the Loyola Literary 
Society, composed of students in the higher classes. In direct 



104 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

education for the real work of life, no influences of my college 
days were equal to those of this Society. Many a battle royal 
was fought in the old debating room, and every inch of ground 
was contested. The debates very seldom fell wholly upon those 
appointed, but the fray was taken up by volunteers; and often it 
appeared to me that every member at the meeting had his say, 
night in the meantime having overtaken us, and the contest 
being so sharp and stubborn that the verdict depended on 
a couple of votes. It called into use and fastened in the memory 
what was learned from text-books and in class; it prompted 
inquiries and investigations that otherwise would never have 
been made; it stimulated the exercise of all our faculties, as the 
set tasks of class never could. Its standing and favor in the Col- 
lege could not be better illustrated than by the fact that the 
winner of the prize debate at the end of the year was generally 
the hero of Commencement. 

Another College society in high favor with the boys, and 
equally so with their relatives and friends, was the Dramatic 
Society. A number of plays were produced during my stay at 
Loyola, and they were well received by the Faculty and the 
public. Personally, I think a boy learns, in a large degree, 
elocution and English from one standard play, and that kind 
was the only kind 'produced. Whatever public-speaking qual- 
ities the students of our time possess, they owe Mr. William J. 
Stanton, S.J. He labored hard with us, everything was action 
with him; he was a bundle of nerves, and was all afire; no half- 
way, half-hearted passages for him: they must have life and 
portray the passion involved. Consequently when we had a 
battle, it was a real battle, and woe betide the fellow in a dream 
at that time; he got a reminder from his adversary that awoke 
him and left its mark! Broken spears and lances, battered 
helmets and shields were often sent back to Jones, the costumer. 
These plays were the delight of the students, and were an edu- 
cating influence. 

The chief complaint against the classical course is that it 
requires time and diligence, while a shorter way, it is thought, 
might be found of getting into the business of life. The rage 
to-day is to leave the great highway of knowledge which has been 
trodden for ages, and seek out by-paths which will lead the 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 105 

traveller to the end of his journey in less time and with less labor. 
The tendency of such opinions is, I believe, to give currency to 
a superficial education. I cannot believe that the most distin- 
guished names that have adorned the professions, the statesmen 
who have guided the policy of their age, and the scholars whose 
writings now form our standard works in science and literature, 
ever looked back on the time spent in their classical education 
as lost to them; and that they would warn those who would imi- 
tate their high example, and who aspire to reach the eminence 
which they attained, to avoid the path in which they walked 
during the years of their pupilage. 

Loyola designs to give youth a general education, classical, 
literary and scientific; a comprehensive education, which is pro- 
fessedly preparatory alike for all the professions. It affords in- 
struction in all the branches with which it is desirable for a 
youth to have a general acquaintance before directing his atten- 
tion to a particular course of study. It aims to develop and 
strengthen the various mental faculties, and at the same time to 
indoctrinate the student with Catholic truth, so that he may not 
fear to come in contact with the non-Catholic mind. 

All sound thinkers are gradually settling down in the convic- 
tion that these principles of education are the true ones. They 
are true, because they are founded in the nature of man. Un- 
questionably the basis of all just thinking, in literature, science, 
art and philosophy, must be laid in a knowledge of the ancient 
classics, mathematics and mental philosophy. Moral training is 
concerned with the everlasting interests of man, and belongs to 
every form of education. 

The distinguishing feature of the Jesuit system, that which 
elevates it far above all others, is its marvellous aptitude for 
penetrating into the characters of youth; and, above all, that it 
holds all physical and intellectual education as subordinate to 
moral and religious culture. Its first object is to make Chris- 
tians; its second, to make scholars and men. In the conviction, 
therefore, that without religion there can be no education, in 
the strictest sense of the word — that is to say, no complete and 
harmonious development of the intellect and heart of man — 
Christian Doctrine was a class study at Loyola. In addition, lec- 
tures were given in the old Hall every Wednesday morning by 



106 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Father William F. Clarke, before the whole school. His method 
was catechetical. He was a man noted in the diocese as a stu- 
dent, orator and theologian; and although apparently cold, aus- 
tere aud hard to approach, he was a steadfast friend, as I had 
occasion to remember, and a holy man, whose motto in life was 
"Justice." A question of dogma asked him was not answered 
by a simple yes or no; but dates and decrees of Councils 
were given in reply. Catholic doctrine and faith were ration- 
ally, elaborately and beautifully unfolded by him, as all who 
attended his lectures well remember. Loyola College students 
twice, in my time, won the intercollegiate prize of one hundred 
dollars for the best thesis in Christian Doctrine; and to Father 
Clarke was due the credit. 

These then are the branches of study which great minds have 
decided to be the most important for intellectual discipline. In 
this age of dissension between the different classes of society, of 
strife between Capital and Labor, of difference between the sects, 
men are led to doubt religion of all kinds. We are even inclined 
to look with anxiety upon our country's future. Yet through 
the cloud of doubt, appears a ray of hope. Institutions like 
Loyola are the embodiment of the Faith that will enlighten the 
world. Faith is the grandest gift God can bestow. While men 
lose it and grope about in the dark, these institutions proclaim 
to the world that religious truth is not guided by the opinions of 
men. As comets often depart from the sun, and for years are 
lost in space, so men straying away from the influence of the 
Church, wander about in the dark. Looking at society, we see 
the poor apparently crushed by the rich. Workingmen rise to 
demand their rights. Hope can dawn upon us only through the 
teaching bodies of the Church. They teach the laboring man and 
the workman to carry out honestly and well all equitable agree- 
ments freely made. They teach the rich man and the employer 
that their work-people are not their slaves; that they must 
respect in every man his dignity as a Man and a Christian. 

In concluding, I cannot refrain from speaking of the relation 
I found existing between teachers and students at old Loyola. 
I can, of course, speak only from my own experience; but I 
know from what my college mates said at the time, and since 
we have passed from its walls, that my sentiments will be 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 107 

echoed by them. I must be pardoned if I speak warmly, for I 
truly feel deeply upon this subject. Seven years, seven of the 
very happiest years of my life, were spent beneath the shelter- 
ing care of the Jesuits. How remarkable the dread the word 
Jesuit inspires in some minds! It is of them and of their pur- 
suits that I have tried to give a faint picture. To them and to 
their care I owe every good thing, moral or intellectual, that I 
may happen to possess; and I should feel myself guilty of the 
basest ingratitude if I stood silently by while their character 
or their system were assailed. Most willingly and most truth- 
fully then do I give my testimony that in Loyola where I, with 
nearly five hundred other boys, spent the best days of my youth, 
espionage was a thing absolutely unknown. The fullest con- 
fidence was reposed in the honor and good feeling of the 
students, and rarely was that confidence abused. The Jesuits 
were as the parents of the younger boys, and the elder brothers 
of the more advanced. In the class-rooms they were earnest, 
erudite Mentors; in the play-grounds they were the uncon- 
strained sharers in our sports. Mutual affection was cemented by 
deep respect on the one side and familiar kindness on the other. 
I may add that the friendships thus formed ended not with the 
ending of our College days, but in many cases, mine amongst 
the rest, stretched out into our after life, and were and are to us 
now a source of keen intellectual and social pleasure and deep 
religious consolation. 

Charles J. Bodchet. 



VIII. 



OLD STUDENTS DURING THE DECADE OF 
1870-80. 



The following are some of whom we have information: 
Dr. Charles O' Donovan, a well-known and able phy- 
sician, professor in the Baltimore Medical College, was 
a student in the years i870-'75; he received high honors 
his last year and afterwards was graduated with distinc- 
tion at Georgetown. 

Mr. Frank S. Hambleton, of Hambleton & Co., well 
known bankers, who recently bid ten million dollars for 
the Western Maryland Railroad when its sale was pend- 
ing, was a student in i870-'72; he received high honors 
in his classes his last year. Hambleton & Co. , when they 
failed in their attempt to purchase the railroad, gave an 
example of equanimity after defeat in an honest fight. 
They said, as announced in the Sun of April 7th, 1902: 

We are glad that the contest is over, and desire to congratu- 
late Mr. Fuller and his associates upon their victory. We made 
the best fight we could for the property, and it was an honest 
fight for what we believed to be the best interests of the people 
of Baltimore. 

Mr. William A. House, manager of the United Rail- 
ways and Electric Company, was a student in i8yo-'y2. 
Justice Henry M. Clabaugh of the Supreme Court of 
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HISTORICAL SKETCH. 109 

the District of Columbia, was a student in i87o-'73; he 
received several distinctions, and went to complete his 
studies at Gettysburg College. He is esteemed in Wash- 
ington as a Judge of the highest integrity. The follow- 
ing incident about him will be interesting. Says the 
Baltimore Sun of March 28, 1902: 

Justice Harry M. Clabaugh, who was appointed to the bench of 
the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from his native 
State of Maryland, was yesterday honored by the jury of the court 
over which he presides. The jurors presented him with a beau- 
tiful pair of five-light candelabra and a handsome bouquet of 
flowers. Hon. Ashley M. Gould, of Maryland, who is United 
States District Attorney for the District of Columbia, was let into 
the secret and diplomatically escorted the genial jurist to the 
office of the District Attorney, "to meet some prominent gentle- 
men from Maryland." 

Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson, a prominent dentist, was a 
student in i868-'7i. 

Mr. James H. Irvin, agent, was a student in i868-'74, 
and received distinction. 

Mr. Frank J. Merceret, banker, was a student in 1875- 
1877 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Felippe A. Broadbent, manufacturer, was a stu- 
dent in 1 876-' 81 — received distinctions. 

Mr. John P. O'Ferrall, a prominent lawyer, was a 
student in i876-'82 — received honors. 

Mr. Matthew S. Brenan, an esteemed business man, 
well known and of high standing, and President of the 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, was a student in 1870- 
1877 — received high honors in his classes. 

His partner, Mr. Edward M. Brenan, was a student in 
1 870-' 72. The wholesale and retail hardwood lumber 
firm of P. E. Brenan & Co., lately retired from busi- 
ness. In its long career of 101 years the business 



IIO LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

passed through three generations without a failure or 
extension of time asked for on any obligations. The 
founder of the firm was Mr. John F. Brenan, a French- 
man, grandfather of Messrs. M. S. and E. M. Brenan, 
who, being driven from San Domingo by an insurrec- 
tion, came to Baltimore and went into the business of 
importing mahogany lumber in 1801, and was successful. 

Mr. Joseph Brenan, of Anne Arundel County, another 
brother, was a student in i876-'8i. 

Mr. John H. Roche, journalist, President of the Jour- 
nalists' Club, was a student in i8yo-'74. 

Messrs. Henry S. and Frederick I. Jenkins, mer- 
chants, were students in i87i-'75. 

Mr. Henry C. Brown, in business, was a student in 
i87o-'72. 

Mr. Frank J. Caughy, real estate, was a student in 

i87o-'74- 

Mr. William Gahan, of the firm of Pattison & Gahan, 
was a student in i87o-'72. 

Messrs. Emile and Regis Laroque, druggists, were 
students in i87o-'73. 

Mr. William McShane, manager of Henry McShane 
Manufacturing Co., was a student in i87o-'7i. 

Mr. John B. O'Neill, in business, was a student in 
i864-'72. 

Dr. Harry G. Prentiss, physician at Waverly, was a 
student in i87o-'72. 

Mr. Frank T. Redwood, banker, was a student in 
i87o-'7i. 

Mr. Bernard Courlaender, agent of the Pennsylvania 
R. R., was a student in i87i-'73. 

Mr. Harry Arnold, druggist, was a student in i872-'74. 

Mr. J. Krebs Rusk, lawyer, was a student in 1871- 
1872. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. Ill 

Dr. L. Ernest Neale, an esteemed physician, Regent 
and Professor of the School of Medicine of the Univer- 
sity of Maryland, was a student in the years i8j2-''j7 — 
received high honors in his classes. 

Mr. William B. Neale, of the legal profession, was a 
student in 1 872-' 76 — shared honors with his brother. 

Dr. J. Homer Hoffman, an esteemed physician, was a 
student in 1 872-' 76 — received several distinctions. 

Mr. Joseph M. Brown, of V. J. Brown & Sons, was a 
student in i872-'75. 

Mr. Thomas J. Foley, in business, was a student in 

1872-75- 

Mr. Albert T. Myer, of Thomas J. Myer & Co., was a 
student in i872-'77 — received honors in his class. 

Mr. Charles J. Carroll, manufacturer, was a student in 
i87i-'77 — received honors in his class. 

Mr. Henry J. Carroll, of Thomas G. Carroll & Son, 
was a student in 1 875-' 80 — received honors. 

Mr. Stephen S. Clark, lawyer, was a student in 

i873-'74- 

Mr. Anthony B. McElroy, in business, was a student 

in i873-'77. 

Mr. Joseph Ayd, druggist, was a student in i874~'75. 

Mr. John D- Cassidy, in business, was a student in 
i872-'77 — received honors. 

Messrs. Wm. K. Cromwell and Richard Cromwell, 
manufacturers, were students in i874-'76 — received 
honors or distinctions. 

Mr. William P. Cummings, of Cummings & Co., was 
a student in 1 874-' 79 — received honors. 

Mr. Charles H. Dickey, lately vice-president of the 
Gas Company, was a student in i874-'77. 

Mr. Robert Lehr was a student in 1 874-' 76. 

Mr. Oscar Wolff, a prominent lawyer, was a student 
in 1 874-' 77 — received honors. 



112 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Mr. Ferdinand C. Dugan, lawyer, was a student in 

1875-79- 

Mr. Henry Ignatius Brady was a student in i87o-'77, 
and the winner of high honors. 

Mr. William J. O'Brien, lawyer, was a student in 

1875-78. 

Messrs. Henry M. Hoen and Irving W. Hoen, of the 
well known firm of lithographers, were students in the 
years i875-'78 — received high honors. 

Mr. L,ouis R. Foley, in business, was a student in 

1875-77- 

Mr. William P. Brown, of V. J. Brown & Sons, was 
a student in i875-'7q. 

Mr. Henry A. Brehm, brewer, was a student in 
1877-78. 

Mr. Francis X. Donnelly, manufacturer, was a student 
in i875-'78. 

Messrs. Parkin S. and Horace Brown, in business, 
were students in i873-'78. 

Mr. Iyouis J. Brewer, in business, was a student in 
1 874-' 76 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Hammond J. Dugan, in real estate, was a student 
in i877-'8i — received distinctions. 

Mr. J. Austin Fink, an esteemed attorney, and leading 
Catholic, was a student in i875-'8i — received high 
honors. 

Mr. E. Weber Hoen, of A. Hoen & Co., was a student 
in i877~'79 — received distinctions. 

Mr. John P. Helldorfer, brewer, was a student in 
1 879-' 80 — received honors. 

Mr. Ernest S. L. McElroy, lawyer, was a student in 
1878-80. 

Mr. Geo. A. Heuisler, brother of Judge Heuisler of the 
Juvenile Court, was a student in the years i879-'83, and 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 113 

received honors. He afterward entered tile Society of 
Jesus, and after several years of preparation and study, 
was entering upon his years of professorship as a Jesuit 
scholastic when he was seized with a fatal illness and 
died, recalling the words of Scripture, Placita erat Deo 
anima illius; propter hoc properavit educere ilium de 
medio iniquitatum. He was very much regretted by his 
superiors and all who knew him, as he was a young 
man of estimable character and superior talent, and 
gave great promise of usefulness. He died at Holy 
Cross College, in Massachusetts, in November, 1890, at 
the age of 27. 

Rev. Edward Mickle, of Cape Charles, Va., was a 
student in i8yo-'7i — received honors. 

Rev. William Tewes, C. SS. R., of New York, was a 
student in 187 2-' 73 — received honors. 

Rev. William J. Barnwell, CM., Superior of the 
House of Studies, Perryville, Mo., and delegate from 
the United States to the convention of the Congregation 
of the Mission in Paris in the summer of 1902, was a 
student in 1877-' 79 — received high honors. 

Rev. Francis P. Doory, the esteemed Pastor of St. 
Augustine's Church, Elkridge, near Baltimore, was a 
student in 1 874-' 80. 

Rev. Eugene McDonnell, S.J., for a number of years 
professor in the College of Fordham, N. Y., was a stu- 
dent in iS74-'83 — received distinction. 

Rev. William A. Fletcher, D.D., Rector of the Balti- 
more Cathedral, wasastudent in i878-'83 — won brilliant 
honors in his last year when in the class of Rhetoric. 

Rev. W. G. Read Mullan, S.J., Rector of Boston Col- 
lege and the Church of the Immaculate Conception, was 
a student in i874-'77 — received honors. 



114 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Rev. A. J. Elder Mullan, S.J., Professor of Theology 
in Woodstock College, Md. , and formerly professor 
at the Novitiate, Frederick, and in Boston and George- 
town Colleges, was a student in 1878-1882, and the 
winner of brilliant honors. 

Rev. John J. Murray, Pastor of the Church at Spar- 
row's Point, Md., was a student in i878-'79 — received 
distinctions. 

Rev. Francis M. Connell, S.J., professor for a number of 
years at St. Francis Xavier's College, New York, and also 
at Loyola, and other Jesuit colleges, was a student in 
i879-'82, and a winner of brilliant honors. 

Rev. William T. Russell, of the priests of the Cathe- 
dral, and secretary to His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, 
was a student in 1 879-' 80 — received distinctions. 

Rev. Thomas E. Stapleton, Pastor of St. Elizabeth's 
Church in this city, was a student in i879-'8i — received 
distinctions. 

Mr. Albert B. Hoen, of A. Hoen & Co., lithographers, 
was a student in i877-'8o, and received high honors. 

Mr. Joseph D. Stack, in business, was a student in 
i.878-'8o. 

Mr. J. Shorb Neale, bank official, was a student in 
i879-'8o — received distinction. 

Mr. Alexander L,. Cummings, merchant, was a student 
in i879-'85. 

Rev. V. Howard Brown, S.J., of the Rocky Mountain 
Mission, son of Mr. V. J. Brown, the well-known mer- 
chant, was a student in the years i872-'76, and the recip- 
ient of high honors. He continued his studies at George- 
town and was graduated there. After his ordination he 
voluntarily left Maryland, to labor for souls in the Far 
West. 



IX. 



PRESIDENTIAL TERtt OF FATHER SMITH, 
1885-91. 



Rev. Francis Smith, S.J., in August, 1885, succeeded 
Father McGurk, as President, and continued his good 
work. He was born in New York, in September, 1844. 
He was Vice-President of L,oyola the last year of Father 
McGurk's term, and had been previously for a number of 
years professor in different colleges, so that he had much 
experience in the matter of education. By good man- 
agement he cancelled the debt on the College. The 
"L,eague of the Sacred Heart of Jesus," a pious associa- 
tion numbering more than 1600 men alone, was organized 
in the Church ; and the ' ' Catholic Association , " a flourish- 
ing intellectual society of Catholic gentlemen, was formed, 
with the Hall of the College for its place of meeting. 
Through Father Smith's exertions, also, a number of free 
scholarships in the College were founded perpetually for 
deserving students by the contributions of friends. He 
organized the L,oyola Alumni Society; and when, in the 
autumn of 1889, the Catholic Congress and Centennial 
of the Hierarchy had gathered Catholic gentlemen in 
Baltimore from every part of the country, he issued a 
call to form an intercollegiate association of the alumni 
of all the Jesuit colleges in the United States. 

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Il6 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

After mature reflection he discontinued the Commer- 
cial or purely English course; so that since that time 
the College has had only the Collegiate Classical course. 

At the annual Commencement held June 29th, 1886, 
at Ford's Opera House, a debate was held on the sub- 
ject: "Resolved, That Cremation is repugnant to the 
principles of Christianity. ' ' The speakers for the affirm- 
ative were: William J. Gallery and John T. Hopkins; 
for the negative: Thomas J. Carney and Francis G. 
Rosensteel. An address was given on the "Labor 
Question," by J. Francis Coad. The degree of A.B. 
was conferred on J. Francis Coad, Thomas S. Quaid 
and John A. Lane. Mr. Coad has become an educator, 
is Vice Principal and professor at Charlotte Hall School, 
Maryland. 

During the following winter season interesting and 
instructive lectures were given in the Hall by competent 
gentlemen, together with academic exercises by the stu- 
dents. They took place in the evening, and were open 
to the friends of the College. Some of them were: 
Readings from Shakespeare's "King John," students; 
"Chief Justice Taney," John R. McFee, Esq.; "Some 
Physiological Points," Oscar J. Coskery, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Surgery; Readings from the "Lady of the 
Lake," students; "Home Surgery," Oscar J. Coskery, 
M.D.; "A Dark Chapter in the History of Maryland," 
Rev. Edward I. Devitt, S.J.; "Soap-Bubbles and Pla- 
teau's Soap-Films" (with experiments), Rev. S. H. 
Frisbee, S.J.; "Physical and Chemical Properties of 
Water" (with experiments), students. 

At the Commencement held June 24th, 1887, at Ford's 
Opera House, the subject of the addresses was, "Rome — 
Her Influence on Nations." The addresses were: "Rome 




Rev. Francis Smith, S.J. 



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oftheScipios," John T. Hopkins; "Rome of the Caesars," 
Francis G. Rosensteel; "Rome of Leo X.," Albert G. 
Brown; "Rome of Leo XIII., Charles J. Bouchet. An 
address to the students was given by Mr. Charles J. 
Bonaparte, the well known scholarly member of the Bal- 
timore bar. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was con- 
ferred on five young gentlemen, Messrs. Albert G. Brown, 
Charles J. Bouchet, Francis G. Rosensteel, John T. 
Hopkins and John Fischer. Mr. Brown, who was grad- 
uated with brilliant honors, is now Rev. Father Brown, 
S.J., who was ordained priest at Woodstock, Md., in June, 
1902. Mr. Bouchet is an esteemed member of the bar. 
Mr. Rosensteel is in financial business. Mr. Hopkins is 
a worthy member of the legal profession, and Mr. Fischer 
became a physician. At this Commencement a premium 
in the Scientific department was bestowed upon Alfred 
J. Shriver for the best collection and arrangement of 
Maryland minerals. 

Some of the lectures and entertainments given in the 
evening in the Hall the following winter before the 
friends of the College, were: "The Story of Fabiola," 
(illustrated), Rev. E. A. McGurk, S.J.; "Readings from 
Shakespeare's King Henry IV.," students; "Ideal Com- 
monwealth," Rev. P. Finlay, S.J.; "Washington Irving," 
John Morris, M.D.; "Corporate Power, Its Uses and 
Abuses," James D. Cotter, LL.B.; "Pilgrimage to the 
Shrine of the Sacred Heart," (illustrated), Rev. W. Par- 
dow, S.J. 

At the Commencement held June 29, 1888, at Ford's 
Opera House, a number of honors and distinctions were 
conferred, according to custom, on deserving students; 
and a special medal of honor was awarded to Frank T. 
Homer for the best historical essay on the subject, 



Il8 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

"General Robert E. Lee." The announcement was 
made at this Commencement that a medal, to be known 
as the Whiteford Medal, to be awarded for the best 
historical essay, had been founded through the generosity 
of Mrs. Robert Whiteford. 

In the evening of December 20, 1888, a drama by W. 
J. Lucas, entitled "The Cross of St. John's," was pre- 
sented in the Hall by the students, before the friends of 
the College. 

At the Commencement held June 27, 1889, in the 
Academy of Music, the yearly Prize Debate was held on 
the question, '■'Resolved, That Monopolies are Injurious 
to the State. ' ' The affirmative side was taken by George 
M. Boiling and John E. Hussey, and the negative by 
Edward J. Donahue and Herman T. Madigan. The 
judges were Hon. Henry D. Harlan, Hon. Daniel Gans 
and Thomas M. Lanahan, Esq. The Jenkins medal, for 
the best debater, was awarded to John E. Hussey. 
Among many honors and distinctions in the classes, 
special medals of honor were bestowed upon George M. 
Boiling for the best paper on the "Marks of the Church," 
and on Herman T. Madigan for the best historical essay 
on "Napoleon Bonaparte and Pius VII." 

The annual Prize Debate the succeeding year was held 
in the College Hall, May 8, 1890. Subject: "Resolved, 
That Poetry has exercised greater influence within the 
last fifty years than it did during the hundred years 
preceding." The Jenkins medal for the best debater 
was adjudged to Hugh A. Norman. 

At the Commencement held June 25, 1890, at Ford's 
Opera House, illustrated readings from Longfellow's 
"Golden Legend" were given by the students, followed 
by two addresses: "Ethics and the Professions," by 



HISTORIC AI, SKETCH. 119 

Herman T. Madigan," and "A Model Statesman — 
Garcia Moreno," by Oscar L,. Quinlan. The degree of 
A.B. was conferred upon Oscar L,. Quinlan and Herman 
T. Madigan. Both have become lawyers. For the best 
historical essay on "The Origin and Confirmation of the 
Temporal Power of the Popes," the Whiteford Special 
Medal was awarded to George M. Boiling. The address 
to the graduates was by Mr. Michael A. Mullin, A.M., 
class of '59. On account of its soundness and beauty it 
is thought that extracts which summarize it may prove 
interesting here. 



EXTRACTS FROM MR. MULLIN'S ADDRESS. 

An invitation from one's Alma Mater has all the force of a 
command, and I reappear at a l,oyola Commencement just 
thirty-one years since I spoke my Valedictory before a similar, 
alas! not the same, audience. But a College lives as the world 
lives, not for a year or a generation. The thirty-one years which 
have passed have been eventful in the history and progress of 
the human race. But there is every prospect that the changes 
of the coming generation will be greater. It is of this new gen- 
eration that you, Gentlemen, are to be part. Are you equipped 
and ready to take part in the race? You have been prepared 
under a system which, in many respects, is more than two hun- 
dred years old, and is largely based on the learning of Greece 
and Rome. There are many who deride such a system as a thing 
of the past. There are those who think that a college course 
founded on science is a better preparation for the work of the 
world than one founded on literature; that knowledge is more 
important than expression. The true criterion of a system of 
education is not so much what has been learned as what mental 
discipline has been acquired. Classical learning not only gives 
fecundity of expression, it cultivates exactness and precision. A 
man cannot acquire exact and accurate expression without exact 
and accurate thinking. Yet a system of symmetrical and well- 
rounded scholarship has guided your labors. You have not been 
taught that because one branch of learning is valuable, the student 



120 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

must ignore all other learning. The Society of Jesus has never 
discarded the garnered treasurers of the centuries for untried 
and glittering novelties; yet it has ever been read}' to assimilate 
to its system whatever is new, if proved to be good. In your 
training therefore, no means has been neglected which could 
tend to broaden and liberalize your minds, while developing and 
refining each particular faculty. With such an intellectual train- 
ing, much will be expected of you by those who know you and 
are nearest to you. And the world will demand of you more 
than of others with smaller opportunities. Now, what use will 
you make of this training ? To a young man of liberal educa- 
tion there is nothing so calculated to dishearten as the lack of 
appreciation which the busy men of the world show to learning. 
Hence the success of the demagogue and charlatan. We every 
year hear speeches which are applauded to the echo, but which 
a college-bred man would be ashamed to make. He finds some- 
thing still more. He has given the labors of years to learning. 
But he must learn that it cannot supply brains, or energy, or 
force of character. His ordinary course is then to undervalue 
the learning which he has acquired with so much labor. But 
after the first ten years have passed, he has found that learning 
has its value even to the man of the world. What is this 
value ? Not as a marketable commodity; for that is little. It is 
rather the value it has as a discipline in moulding character, in 
developing the man. 

Every man who has knowledge, is to that extent superior to the 
man who has it not. Gentlemen, be not discouraged if you can- 
not immediately coin your learning into dollars. I dwell not on 
the pleasure with which literary and scientific studies sweeten 
our hours of leisure. Even in a utilitarian sense, your college 
training is not without its value. And with a fair allowance for 
the exceptions which are said to prove every rule, men of college 
training, although in such a minority, are the rulers of the world. 
Not only do they direct all higher institutions of learning; they 
fill all the high positions in the Church, and in the courts, the 
cabinets and the parliaments of the world; they occupy the lead- 
ing positions in all the professions; and I will venture also to say 
that they furnish more than their share of the successful men of 
business. 

In conclusion then, Gentlemen, let me urge you to continue 
the liberal studies which have brought to you to-night the honors 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 121 

of your Alma Mater. Make money if you can, honestly; achieve 
fame or at least improve your condition in the world without 
sacrifice of honor or principle. But the important thing after 
all is, not what wealth you may hoard or what position you may 
acquire, but rather into what manner of man you have devel- 
oped. Attend faithfully to whatever business or profession you 
may choose. Let not your minds be dwarfed by the prevailing 
agnosticism in philosophy. Read copiously but carefully of the 
serious literature of your times. Not by hiding from the blast 
the Jesuits of old stayed the storm of the Protestant Reformation. 
Our young men should take part in the intellectual activities of 
the times. The man who fears the result has little confidence 
in the power of Truth or in the promises of Christ. 

Father Smith was relieved of his responsibility as 
President, in May, 1891. There was great regret among 
the people at his departure. He had been devoted to 
their welfare, was a popular confessor, by his zeal and 
earnestness had brought the men's and women's Sodality 
to great perfection of organization, and had won the 
attachment of many by his kindness and sympathy 
shown to those in trouble. After leaving Baltimore he 
was assigned to the band of priests who give Missions in 
different places; and this was his work until he met 
death by an accident in Boston, December 6, 1897. 

During Father Smith's term, in the scholastic year 
1 885-' 86, Rev. Joseph Ardia returned to the College, 
where he still lives, an octogenarian, known to many 
and respected by them as a kind and enlightened con- 
fessor. Nearly half a century ago, during the years 
1 857-" 60, he was the painstaking, earnest and clear- 
headed Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at 
Loyola, and is still well and pleasantly remembered by 
his former students. During the three years following 
that time he was professor to the Jesuit scholastics in 
their three years' course in philosophy, when the semi- 
nary of the Society of Jesus, which is now at Woodstock, 



122 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

was located at Boston College; and he had as his 
pupils several who have since become distinguished 
priests. Afterward he was for many years Pastor of the 
congregation of St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia, the 
venerable church at which Washington attended divine 
service after the Revolutionary War, and at whose 
parochial residence adjoining, the "Father of his Coun- 
try" is said also to have been a friendly visitor to the 
Fathers when he resided in Philadelphia as President. 

Father Ardia was Professor of Mental and Moral 
Philosophy at L,oyola in i886-'8y. He has a clear 
remembrance of remote occurrences in his long and 
eventful life. He is an Italian, born in the kingdom of 
Naples, where he lived until 1848, when just after his 
ordination to the priesthood the revolutionists, enemies 
of religion, drove him out with the members of his Order 
and even the Superior General at Rome. After several 
months of vicissitude in Malta, France and England, 
he sailed for New York, where he arrived safely. From 
there he was invited to Georgetown College, D. C, 
and taught philosophy for several years with earnest- 
ness and eclat in that venerable institution, from which 
he came to Loyola, as mentioned above. 

Mention ought to be made here of Rev. Robert Ful- 
ton, S.J., formerly Provincial of the Society of Jesus, 
and of his generous gift to the cause of Christian edu- 
cation. During his Provincialship he gave for three suc- 
cessive years the sum of $100 as a prize to be contested 
for by a number of Jesuit colleges, in Christian Doctrine. 
The first two years, which were the last of Father 
McGurk's term and the first of Father Smith's, it was 
won by Doyola; and at the Commencement in 1885 it 
was awarded to Oscar L. Quinlan, and the following 
year to Alfred J. Shriver. There were five colleges in 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 123 

competition the first year and seven the second. Father 
Fulton had been professor at Loyola in its first year, 
when he was a scholastic. After his ordination he was 
many years President of Boston College, which he 
raised from small beginnings to a position which com- 
manded great respect even in the "Athens of America." 
He was well known in Boston, and made many friends 
there by his acts of benevolence. He was a man of 
superior literary and classical culture, and was noted 
especially as a conversationalist, being original, erudite 
and entertaining. He was Provincial in the years 
i882-'88; he died in California, at Santa Clara College, 
in September, 1895. 

Rev. Fdward D. Boone, S.J., returned to the College 
in 1890. He had been Vice-President in 1 868-' 70, and is 
kindly remembered by students of that date; he was also 
Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry during the years 
1 87 1 -'73. He was afterward Pastor at L,eonardtown, Md., 
and then President of Holy Cross College, in Massachu- 
setts, for a number of years. During the past twelve years 
of his residence at Loyola he has been the devoted and 
esteemed Chaplain of the Penitentiary, Jail and House 
of Correction, and in these functions he has had a varied 
and interesting experience. About a decade of years 
ago a hardened criminal was confined in jail who had 
been indicted for a brutal murder, tried in due process 
of law, found guilty and sentenced to death. Father 
Boone's action in his case was much admired and com- 
mended at the time. He offered him his ministrations, 
received him into the Church at his own wish, and gave 
him all the consolations of religion. The good fruit of 
his work was shown in the evident sentiments of repent- 
ance, resignation and peace manifested by the accused 
on the scaffold before his death. 



X. 



OLD STUDENTS DURING THE DECADE 
1880-90. 



The following are some of whom we have information: 

Dr. Francis E. Brown, an esteemed physician of the 
city, was a student in i879~'85; he afterward was grad- 
uated at Georgetown. 

Mr. Francis J. Coonan, in business in England, was a 
student in i8.77-'8i. 

Mr. John T. Curley, contractor, was a student in 1876- 
1881. 

Messrs. Charles A. Fink and Thomas S. Fink, in 
business, were students in i877-'8i. 

Mr. Joseph Gahan, railroad official, was a student in 
1877-81. 

Mr. Edward L,. Holloway was a student in i878-'8i. 

Mr. Joseph C. Linsmeier, manufacturing pharmacist, 
was a student in i875-'8i. 

Mr. William P. Lyons, lawyer, was a student in 
i877-'8i — received honors. 

Mr. Robert N. Sloan, bank official, was a student in 
i878-'83 — received honors. 

Mr. Nicholas P. Spencer, railroad official, was a stu- 
dent in i879-'8i — received honors. 

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HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 25 

Dr. William T. Cathell, a well-known and esteemed 
physician, was a student in i88o-'84 — received distinc- 
tions. 

Mr. William S. Cleary, railroad official, was a student 
in i88o-'82 — received honors. 

Mr. Thomas V. Hassan, in business, was a student in 
1880-82. 

Mr. Simon J. Kemp, bank official, was a student in 
i88o-'82 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Thomas K. LeBrou, in business, was a student in 
i88o-'8i. 

Mr. J. Carroll Abearn, in business, was a student in 
i88i-'87 — received distinction. 

Mr. George M. Blake, contractor, was a student in 
i88i-'85. 

Mr. Stephen P. Campbell, lawyer, was a student in 
1 88 1 -'82. 

Mr. Sylvester W. Cook, engaged in insurance, was a 
student in i88i-'82 — received distinction. 

Messrs. John C. E. and W. J. De Bullet, in business, 
were students in i88i-'82. 

Mr. Joseph E. Dunn, in business, was a student in 
i88i-'8q — received distinctions. 

Mr. Joseph T. Prevost, book-keeper, was a student in 
i882-'86. 

Messrs. Leander H. and William A. Lowekamp, book- 
keepers, were students in 1882-85; both, received dis- 
tinctions. 

Rev. Joseph A. Foley, associate Pastor of St. Paul's 
Church, North Caroline street, was a student in 1881- 
1883 — received distinction. 

Rev. Eawrence J. McNamara, Pastor of St. Bridget's 
Church, Canton, was a student in i88i-'85 — received 
distinctions. 



126 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Mr. Alfred J. Shriver, lawyer, was a student in 1882- 
1887, and the winner of brilliant honors. 

Dr. William T. Riley, an esteemed physician, was a 
student in i882-'88 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Aloysius T. Benzinger, court official, was a stu- 
dent in 1 883-' 86 — received distinction. 

Dr. Charles S. Woodruff, an esteemed physician, was 
a student in i882-'86. 

Mr. R. Sanchez Boone, in business, was a student in 
i884-'88. 

Mr. William V. Carver, book-keeeper, was a student 
in 1882-86. 

Mr. Charles J. Coll, in business, was a student in 
i883-'85 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Alexander D- Cummings, merchant, was a student 
in 1 883-' 85 — received honors. 

Mr. William J. Gallery, a well-known Catholic book- 
seller, was a student in i88i-'87 — received honors. 

Dr. Henry F. Cassidy, an able physician, was a stu- 
dent in i883-'87 — received honors. 

Mr. Joseph J. Cassidy, merchant, was a student in 
i883-'86. 

Mr. Charles B. Gorman, esteemed member of the firm 
of C. J. Dunn & Co., was a student in i88i-'86 — re- 
ceived distinction. 

Rev. Denis C. Keenan, Pastor at Newport, Charles 
County, was a student in i88i-'85 — received distinction. 

Dr. Anthony H. Mathieu, physician, was a student in 
i88i-'88. 

Mr. Charles Milholland, lawyer, was a student in 
i883-'86. 

Mr. Edward J. Shriver, merchant, was a student in 
i883-'88 — received honors. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 27 

Mr. William S. Tonry, chemist, was a student in 
1 883-' 87 — received distinction. 

Mr. Bernard J. Goodwin, railroad official, was a stu- 
dent in 1883-86 — received honors. 

Mr. Francis Helldorfer, brewer, was a student in 1881- 
886 — received honors. 

Mr. Joseph Judik, manufacturer, was a student in 
883-'86 — received distinction. 

Mr. John J. Kidd, in business, was a student in 1883- 
888 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Francis I. Markoe, in business, was a student in 
883-'86. 

Mr. .Lewis C. Roche, in business, was a student in 
88 3 -'8 5 . 

Rev. Philip J. Walsh, associate Pastor of St. Greg- 
ory's Church, was a student in i883-'84. 

Mr. G. Stuart Wise, in business, was a student in 
i883-'88 — received distinction. 

Mr. Clarence D. Boyle, Manager of the Monarch 
Electric Company, was a student in 1 884-' 88. 

Mr. Bernard Gallery, Catholic bookseller, was a 
student in i884~'86. 

Mr. John K. Hussey, journalist, Chief Clerk of the 
City Council, was a student in 1 884-' 89; he received 
high honors. 

Mr. Benjamin W. Jenkins, clerk, was a student in 
i884-'87 — received distinction. 

Rev. Louis O' Donovan, priest of the Cathedral, was a 
student in 1884-90 — received high honors. 

Mr. Harry C. Mathieu, lawyer and commissioner of 
deeds, was a student in i884-'89 — received distinctions. 

Rev. Thomas A. Walsh, associate Pastor of St. Paul's 
Church, Washington, was a student in 1884-86 — 
received honors. 



128 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Mr. Frank J. Gately, lawyer and former member of 
the Legislature, was a student in i885~'89. 

Mr. G. Henry Katzenberger, clerk, was a student in 
1884-87. 

Mr. Bernard Schmitz, an esteemed lawyer, was a 
student in 1884-86. 

Mr. Henry S. Barklage, inspector, was a student in 
1885-86. 

Mr. Bartus C. Dorsey, clerk, was a student in i885~'87. 

Mr. Louis A. Katzenberger, engaged in insurance, 
was a student in i884-'86 — received honors. 

Rev. Patrick Gavan, a priest of the Cathedral and 
Chancellor of the Archdiocese, was a student in 
i885-'86 — received honors. 

Mr. Etnile Coonan, President of the Baltimore-Mary- 
land Engraving Company, was a student in i885-'86 — 
received honors. 

Rev. Edward Healy, assistant Pastor of St. John's 
Church, Eager street, was a student in 1885-91. 

Mr. Jacob M. Hedian, in business, was a student in 
1 8 85-' 88 — received honors. 

Messrs. David W. and Thomas W. Jenkins, of H. W. 
Jenkins & Sons, were students in 1885-' 89 — received 
distinctions. 

Mr. Paul J. Quinn, real estate, was a student in 
1 885-' 90 — received distinctions. 

Mr. James P. Corbitt, in business, was a student in 
1 886-' 88 — received distinction. 

Mr. Philip I. Heuisler, chemist, was a student in 
1886-89 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Charles A. McCann, clerk, was a student in 
1 886-' 89— received distinctions. 

Mr. James R. Higgins, clerk, was a student in 
i886-'88. 



HISTORICAL, SKETCH. 1 29 

Rev. Thos. G. Smyth, assistant Pastor of St. Stephen's 
Church, Washington, was a student in i887-'9i, and 
the winner of brilliant honors. 

Rev. Francis Wunnenberg, Pastor of St. Joseph's 
Church, Belair Road, was a student in i887~'90 — 
received distinction. 

Rev. Hugh A. Curley, associate Pastor of St. Vin- 
cent's Church, was a student in i888-'9i. 

Rev. James B. Kailer, associate Pastor of St. Pius' 
Church, was a student in 1 888-' 89 — received honors. 

Mr. Charles A. Murphy, clerk, was a student in 1886- 
1888 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Joseph F. Tiralla, secretary, was a student in 
1886-92. 

Mr. Ernest M. Hill, engineer, was a student in 1887- 
1893 — received honors. 

Mr. Thomas J. Jeanneret, secretary, was a student in 
i887-*93 — received honors. 

Mr. Frank Tully , in business , was a student in 1 887-' 88 . 

Mr. Charles B. Brown, clerk, was a student in 1887- 
1892 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Charles I. Callahan, in business, was a student in 
i888-'93 — received distinctions. 

Mr. Edward F. Milholland, journalist, was a student 
in 1882-86. 

Rev. John J. Knell, associate Pastor of St. Jerome's 
Church, was a student in i886-'88. 

Messrs. James F. Dunn, Carroll J. Boone and Thomas 
M. Connell, were students for several years during the 
period i877-'84. They entered the Society of Jesus, 
passed through the noviceship and several years of study , 
and gave great promise for the future, when they were 
called from earth in the flower of youth, as Aloysius and 



130 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Berchmans and so many other youthful saints had been 
called before. Messrs. Dunn and Boone died at George- 
town College in November, 1890, and October, 1895, 
respectively, and Mr. Connell at St. Francis Xavier's 
College, New York City, in January, 1892. 

Mr. James W. Kemp, in business, was a student in 
i885-' 9 i. 

Dr. George V. Milholland, an esteemed dentist, was a 
student in 1 883-' 89 — received distinction. 

Mr. NicholasS. Hill, Jr., engineer, son of Major N. S. 
Hill, of the Carrollton Hotel, was a student in i88i-'83, 
and received distinctions. He afterward continued his 
studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology and was 
graduated there. Lately the newspapers announced that 
he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Water Depart- 
ment of New York City. 

Mr. Frederick O'Brien was a student in i882-'85, and 
received honors. Lately the Baltimore Sun had the fol- 
lowing notice of him: 

Mr. Frederick O'Brien, who is now in Japan collecting indus- 
trial statistics in the Orient, is a son of Judge William J. O'Brien 
of Baltimore. Mr. O'Brien was born in Baltimore 33 years ago. 
He was educated at Loyola College and was graduated at the 
Law School of the Maryland University. He did not enter the 
legal profession, but became a writer. He has done newspaper 
work in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities. 
For some years he has been a Pacific Coast correspondent. He 
married Miss Gertrude Frye, whose father was formerly United 
States Consul at Halifax. 



XI. 



PRESIDENTIAL TERtt OF FATHER MORGAN, 
1891-1900. 



Rev. John A. Morgan, S.J. succeeded Father Smith 
in May, 1891. He had been a professor at the 
College, when a scholastic, from i862-'66, and hence 
was on familiar ground. He had also been pro- 
fessor at Georgetown and Gonzaga Colleges, D. C, had 
been for years one of the Fathers whose work is to give 
missions in different places, and had been a considerable 
time Pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia. He 
was a man of literary and classical culture. He was a 
native of St. Mary's County, Md., was born in October, 
1838, and possessed the old-time Maryland geniality and 
bonhomie, and as a consequence won a large circle of 
friends in Baltimore. During his administration the num- 
ber of students increased and became larger for a time, 
than at any previous period. As the need of enlarging 
the College was felt, he completed the purchase begun by 
Father Smith of the six dwelling-houses on Monument 
street adjoining the College property. Until a new build- 
ing could be erected on their site, two or three of them 
were altered so as to afford additional class-rooms for the 
students. In a hall in one of them, lectures also were 
introduced a couple of evenings in the week on Mental 

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132 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

and Moral Philosophy for gentlemen already launched 
in business or professional life; and through several 
years a large number of degrees were conferred on those 
who attended the lectures and passed the examinations 
prescribed. In the Catalogue of 1895 it is announced, in 
reference to those attending these evening lectures, that 
hereafter the College will confer degrees in course only 
upon those who already have academic degrees. The 
evening lectures have now been discontinued for some 
years. 

During Father Morgan's administration the higher 
classes in the College were fairly well filled, and nine 
classes of Philosophy, after finishing the course, were 
admitted to graduation and received the degree of A.B. 
Many public exhibitions were given by the students in 
Mental or Moral Philosophy or Natural Science; their 
yearly debates in public were of superior excellence; and 
several plays were given by the Dramatic Association 
before large audiences in such a manner as to delight 
them and win their applause. 

Father Morgan revived for a time the Catholic Asso- 
ciation, an intellectual society of Catholic gentlemen, 
"intended to provide opportunities for acquiring the 
advantages of higher education in literary, scientific and 
philosophical work." He also kept up the Alumni 
Association, whose object, as expressed in the Catalogue 
of 1896, is to strengthen and perpetuate College friend- 
ships, to stimulate and encourage cultivation of taste for 
liberal pursuits, and to advance the interests of the Col- 
lege. Mr. Michael A. Mullin was the able President 
until 1900, when Mr. Arthur V. Milholland, the present 
genial chief officer, was elected. Mr. Charles M. Kelly, 
of the Baltimore bar, is the zealous and energetic Secre- 




Rev. John A. Morgan, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 133 

tary and Treasurer, and invites old students who may 
desire to keep up their connection with the College by 
becoming members of the Alumni Society, to communi- 
cate with him, 405 Fidelity Building. 

In June, 1894, the Secchi Scientific Society was organ- 
ized by the Philosophy class of that year, directed by 
their Professor of Physics. It is formed of students of 
the higher classes, and has for its aim to stimulate a 
taste for the Natural Sciences in its members and 
to advance them in various scientific information. A 
monthly excursion is made under the guidance of the 
professor to some place where science is exemplified 
either in nature or the arts; and a monthly meeting 
follows, at which papers are read and discussions held 
on scientific topics. Since the completion of the new 
building, the College possesses better facilities than ever 
before for the teaching of the Natural Sciences. It has 
a commodious chemical lecture-room, a well supplied 
laboratory, and an extensive cabinet of physical instru- 
ments and minerals. 

On the evening of June 11, 1891, the students gave 
an exhibition in Natural Science in the College Hall, 
with the following program: 

Mater omnium bonarum artium sapientia — Cic. 

"Prologue," Edward J. Donahue; "The Wonderful 
Power of Water at Rest and in Motion," Francis T. 
Homer; ' 'Indestructibility of Matter and Energy, ' ' Geo. 
M. Brown; "Exponitur Ratio propter quam Terra sit 
Rotunda," Geo. M. Boiling; "Perpetual Motion an Impos- 
sibility," Chas. C. Homer; "Concerning Earthquakes," 
Joseph C. Mullin; "Closing Words," Hugh A. Norman. 

The Catholic Mirror had a lengthy notice of the exhi- 
bition, from which we quote briefly: 



134 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

The first speaker, in a pleasing manner explained what was 
to be the nature of the evening's treat. He said that public 
opinion gave the Jesuits the full credit of bestowing on their 
scholars a splendid classical training, and of thoroughly instruct- 
ing them in Christian doctrine, but held that they were opposed 
to Science. The concession, as made above, he said, is in itself 
a great deal; but that the Jesuits are opposed to Science, is not 
true. The present exhibition will speak for itself on the ques- 
tion. Mr. Francis Homer's lecture was probably the most 
interesting, certainly the most elaborate, of the evening. He 
used experiments, explained his meaning by diagram or by re- 
lating some familiar incident, speaking sometimes extempore 
with great fluency. Mr. Brown deserved the highest commenda- 
tion for the able way in which he handled his very difficult sub- 
ject. Mr. Boiling's lecture was in Latin, and the idea was sug- 
gested, he said, by a recent contention in a college journal that 
Latin ought to be the universal language of science. Mr. Charles 
Homer proved conclusively that no machine once set in motion, 
and assisted by no other agency than itself, could go on forever. 
Mr. Mullin gave the last lecture in a popular way. Finally Mr. 
Norman commented on each of the lectures and thanked the 
audience for their kind attention. 

On the evening of June 6, 1895, the following program 
was rendered in the College Hall : 

Exhibition in Natural Scie?ice before the Secchi 
Scientific Society. 

"The national necessity for scientific education is imperative." 

— Sir J. Lubbock. 

lectures by students with experiments and stereop- 
ticon diagrams: "A Fundamental Theorem on Force," 
R. Emmett Lacy; "The Voltaic Current and the 
Dynamo Machine," Thomas J. Foley; "De Solis Consti- 
tutione," Martin A. O'Neill; "Ways of Estimating 
Geological Time," Chas. M. Kelly; "Dissipation or Deg- 
radation of Energy and Death of the World," Jeremiah 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 135 

P. Lawler. On the back of the program is an epit- 
ome in English of the Latin lecture on the "Constitu- 
tion of the Sun." It read as follows: "Importance 
of the sun to us. Its great distance and how ascer- 
tained. The great heat and high temperature of its sur- 
face. Its immense size and mass. Spots of the sun and 
its rotation. The solar atmosphere and its analysis by 
the spectroscope. Source of the sun's heat, and how 
long it will last." 

At the end of the program is the sentiment: 

"Science is approaching the hour when we shall no longer 
open its books without a religious emotion." — Bishop Bougaud. 

On February nth, 1897, students of the Senior class 
gave a scientific exhibition in public on the X-ray, 
with the following program: "The Discovery of the 
X-ray," William A. Toolen; "The X-ray," Herman 
I. Storck; "Application of the X-ray," James F. 
Gurry. The subject was then fresh and the world 
still in wonder at the strange discovery; the exhibition 
was much praised, and showed that the College was up 
to the time in science. These are examples of the 
exhibitions in Natural Science given during the years 
1 89 1 -1 900. 

Under the auspices of the Catholic Association a 
number of lectures by distinguished men were given in 
the Hall before the friends of the College in the years 
i893-'95. Three of them were specially interesting. 
Mr. Masayoshi Takaki, a native of Japan, and a 
a student of the Johns Hopkins University, lec- 
tured on the recent war between his country and 
China. With liveliness of manner and in fluent Eng- 
lish, with a slight foreign accent, he explained the 



136 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

causes and progress of the war, naturally leaning to the 
side of Japan. Then he gave some account of the 
customs of his country, robed himself in the male and 
female Japanese dresses, and after the lecture remained 
to answer any questions prompted by the curiosity of 
those present. 

Another lecture was by Col. William P. Craighill, the 
eminent engineer, who had deepened the channel of 
Baltimore, which has been called the Craighill Channel 
in his honor. He spoke of the process of dredging the 
channel, and gave an idea of the vastness of the work by 
saying that the amount of mud taken up would fill Bal- 
timore street for three miles to the tops of the houses. 
Then he gave an unwritten page of history in telling 
how a stealthy attack was made on Baltimore by the 
British at the same time that Fort McHenry was bom- 
barded, but was frustrated by the brave and watchful 
citizens. He gave interesting information also on the 
defences of Baltimore against possible attack in war, 
though he said he could not tell everything, as discretion 
naturally obliged the Government to keep some of its 
defensive preparations secret. Before his lecture he dis- 
claimed all rhetorical art required in a lecturer; still, in 
an easy, winning manner and in fluent, expressive lan- 
guage he did full justice to his subject, and afforded a 
pleasant evening to the audience. 

Another lecture was by Col. Charles Marshall, the vet- 
eran lawyer and an estimable gentleman, who had been 
on the personal staff of General Robert E. Lee and in 
very close intercourse with him. In his graphic, inter- 
esting and able manner he carried his audience back in 
fancy to the period of the Civil War and the campaigns 
before Richmond, and gave some inside history of those 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 37 

events. In reference to so many unexplained move- 
ments of Northern armies, he said that the unseen 
cause of them was Lee's stratagem. The great Southern 
commander, he said, liked especially to play on the 
Government's sensitiveness about Washington, which 
he made a feint to attack when he wished to get rid of 
an army near him — and then the army was off to the 
defence. Other lectures were given by the following: 
General John Gibbon, U. S. A., on "Fighting with the 
Indians" — a lecture which was his last; Admiral 
Ammen, U. S. N., who, also, on this occasion made his 
last public appearance; Gen. Joseph L,. Brent; Col. 
Richard Malcolm Johnston; Mr. W. H. McGee, U. S. 
Bureau of Ethnology; Captain C. H. Hamilton, Dublin; 
Joseph Packard, Esq.; Dr. Thomas E- Shearer; Dr. 
Quinn, of the Catholic University, who lectured on 
Greek; Hon. Richard M. McSherry; Dr. Hyvernat, of 
the Catholic University; Messrs. Charles J. Bonaparte 
and A. Eeo Knott, who gave a public debate on the 
Gold and Silver Standards. The success of these lec- 
tures, it seemed, was due in great measure to the energy 
and sagacity of Mr. J. Austin Fink, a prominent mem- 
ber of the committee in charge of the matter. 

The public debate by students was held in the College 
Hall, May 28, 1891. The subject was: "Resolved, 
That the French Revolution has not been a Blessing to 
France." The judges awarded the Jenkins Medal to 
Francis T. Homer. 

At the Commencement held June 24th, 1891, at the 
New Eyceum Theatre, Messrs. George M. Boiling, 
George M. Brown and Hugh A. Norman, having finished 
their college course, received the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. Mr. Boiling afterward pursued with distinction a 



138 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

three years' course of Greek at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity and received the degree of Ph. D.; he has now 
been for some years Professor of Greek at the Catholic 
University, Washington. Mr. Brown is in business, a 
member of the firm of V. J. Brown & Sons. Mr. Nor- 
man is an esteemed member of the Baltimore bar and a 
prominent Catholic. 

The next year the public debate was held May 5th, 
1892, in Lehmann's Hall, on the question: " Resolved, 
That the Golden Age of English Literature is Our Own 
Century." The judges awarded the Jenkins Medal to 
Charles C. Homer. 

At the Commencement on June 27th, 1892, as it 
was the centennial year of Columbus, the addresses of the 
graduates were on the great Discoverer. Messrs. Francis 
T. Homer, Charles C. Homer, Edward J. Donahue and J. 
Cluskey Mullin spoke respectively on "Columbus, the 
Navigator and Man of Science;" Columbus, the Loyal 
Subject;" "Columbus, the Hero;" "Columbus, the Chris- 
tian." The Salutatory was delivered by C. Stewart 
Lee, and the Valedictory by Edward V. Milholland. 
Six students received the degree of Bachelor of Arts: — 
Messrs. Edward J. Donahue, Charles C. Homer, Francis 
T. Homer, C. Stewart Lee, Edward V. Milholland and 
J. Cluskey Mullin. Mr. Donahue is now a postoffice 
official, Mr. Lee is in business, Mr. Milholland is an 
esteemed physician, Messrs. Francis Homer and Mullin 
are prominent lawyers, Mr. Charles Homer became a 
lawyer and is Vice-President of the Second National 
Bank. The address to the graduates was by Mr. Arthur 
V. Milholland, A.B. 1862, A.M. 1890; and as it 
expressed sentiments both sound and beautiful, it is 
thought that some extracts from it here will prove 
interesting: 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 39 

Rev. President and Professors, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fel- 
low-Graduates: — I address you as fellow-graduates, because 
thirty years ago I had the honor of receiving from the Faculty 
of Loyola College the same degree it has but a few moments 
ago conferred on each of you. I know this audience, parents 
and friends, came rather to hear you than me, and I shall, there- 
fore, not delay them long. I apprehend that, as you are about 
to embark on life's voyage with, perhaps, as yet no well defined 
purpose as to the occupation which may engage your attention, 
it may be proper for me to vary the usual form of such dis- 
courses, and to say a few words about the avocations of men and 
the needs of the times. This year 1892 being the quarto-cen- 
tenary of the discovery of the New World by Columbus, whose 
life and works have been so ably presented by you to-night, its 
development in that period affords a study of the marvellous 
achievements of which men are capable. And it is true that the 
most wonderful triumphs in invention and discovery have been 
made in the present century, and perhaps within its last sixty 
years. Had they been even hinted at less than a century ago, they 
would have been received in the same spirit as the stories of the 
Arabian Nights. Prosperity and natural development have 
grown with the country; its commercial and industrial enter- 
prises attract the attention of the world. But the science of the 
professions has also been making advancement which is not so 
readily seen. 

Medicine, for instance. A complete revolution has taken place 
in the last half-century in medicine and surgery. We find Dr. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes in his lecture of thirty years ago rejoicing 
over our improved hygiene and simplified treatment, and instead 
of violating the instincts of the sick, studying those instincts. 
The art of prevention and the art of cure have merged and 
expanded their functions. The influence of the professors of 
medicine over State Legislatures has brought the aid of sanitary 
legislation to enlarge the beneficent areas of scientific discovery. 

Then as to the profession of the Law. As relates to its mem- 
bership, like all other professions, the greatest number is at the 
foot of the ladder, although there is always ample room at the 
top. They are the men the most trusted and distrusted; men 
who make contracts and unmake them, who give advice and sell 



140 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

counsel, who make trouble out of money and money out of 
trouble, who are ready either to defend or prosecute. The lawyer 
is at liberty to make selections in the cases he takes. Now, I 
ask you to remember one thing above all others, that whatever 
a man's profession or business may be, if he is moved to any 
other than honorable practice in perfect good faith, he is 
unworthy. 

There is one subject which I have not mentioned; one in which 
all professions and classes, even a portion of the females of the 
country, take an interest; I refer to politics. Now there is avast 
difference between a politician and a statesman; but a man may 
be a politician in another and a broader sense. A man looking 
to the solution of the great questions which affect the welfare of 
the people, who guards their liberties, who determines their 
rights and dares to maintain them, looks not for power simply 
to gain the emoluments of office, but to use his power for the 
advancement of civilization. To be dependent solely on politics 
for a living, is to be the slave of some one, to be subordinated to 
influence of one kind or another. 

However, there is need of young men of education in politics. 
They can do a great deal to direct the course of public events 
with advantage to the community; and it is not necessary to hold 
office. Honesty and independence will best be preserved by 
holding aloof. And I ask you when you go forth to assume the 
obligations of American citizenship, to take as one of the best 
gifts of your Alma Mater, an abiding faith in the value of a 
good conscience and a pure heart. Never yield to those who hold 
that these are childish things in the struggle of manhood with 
the stern realities of life. Interest yourselves in public affairs 
as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those 
who discredit politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle. 
Be true to the principles learned in the course you close to-night. 
And even the man who is defeated in the faithful discharge of 
the trust reposed in him, is happy in the knowledge that such 
defeat is preferable to victory with the wounding of conscience 
and the sacrifice of honor. 

Men are wanted. We hear complaints that all professions, all 
branches of business are crowded. My young friends, there is 
room for men always. The great question of Capital and Labor, 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 141 

and great problems of State, of commerce, of society— problems 
vexed and mixed and dark, are to be settled; and who are to 
settle them but the men now coming to manhood's station? But 
when I say men, I do not mean men with great physical and 
intellectual development only; such would be machines of great 
power with perhaps dynamite within. We want pure men — 
men of truth, men true to themselves, true to their fellow-men, 
true to God. Young men of Loyola, remember that the inspira- 
tion of your Alma Mater will serve you; and with an abiding 
faith in her and her teachings, I have no doubt success will 
attend you. 

At the Commencement on June 26th, 1893, the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on the following 
students who completed their course: John F. Connor, 
Charles J. Trinkaus, John T. McElroy, W. Seton .Belt, 
J. Edwin Murphy. Mr. Trinkaus is now the Rev. 
Pastor of St. Mary's Church, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, 
where he has built a new church; Mr. McElroy is a 
priest in Charleston, S. C, and Mr. Murphy is a 
journalist. Mr. Trinkaus graduated with brilliant 
honors; Mr. Murphy also received honors. 

On the evening of April 22nd, 1895, the class of 
Rhetoric, guided and trained by their professor, Rev. 
Benedict Guldner, S.J., presented in the College Hall a 
Iyatin comic drama entitled Deceptores Decepti. The 
costumes were beautiful, the scenery appropriate, the 
music, specially arranged for the occasion, was effective, 
the acting was excellent, and the dialogue in the lan- 
guage of Cicero was specially interesting to those who 
understood it, and even to those who did not. Alto- 
gether it was a very pleasant entertainment. 

At the Commencement held June 25th, 1895, at the 
Lyceum Theatre, there were three addreses on "Errors 
Old and New:" "The Skeptic," R. Emmett Eacy; "The 



142 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Pantheist," Charles M. Kelly; "The Atheist," Jeremiah 
P. Lawlor. Four young men, Thomas J. Foley, Charles 
M. Kelly, R. Emmett Lacy and Jeremiah P. Lawlor, 
having finished their college course, received the degree 
of A.B. Mr. Foley is now a priest at Reisterstown, 
Md. ; Mr. Kelly is a lawyer, Mr. Lawlor is a physician, 
Mr. Lacy is dead. 

At the Commencement, June 23, 1896, the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts was conferred on James I. Conway, 
August M. Mark, James L. Kearney, Mercer Hampton 
Magruder, John F. Seeberger, Joseph C. Judge, J. 
Aloysius Boyd, Mark J. Smith, Edward P. McAdams, 
Martin J. O'Neill. Mr. Conway, who received many 
honors, and Mr. Smith are now Jesuit scholastics. 
Messrs. Mark and McAdams are priests. Messrs. 
Magruder, Judge and Boyd became lawyers. Mr. 
O'Neill is a physician and Mr. Kearney an educator, 
both Professors at Loyola. 

At the Commencement on June 22, 1897, at the 
Lyceum Theatre, six students of the class of Philos- 
ophy received the degree of A.B.: — James F. Gurry, 
John J. Haverkamp, George M. Leimkuhler, John M. 
McNamara, Herman I. Storck, William A. Toolen. Mr. 
Storck, who received many honors, is now a Jesuit scho- 
lastic. Mr. McNamara and Mr. Toolen are priests. Mr. 
Gurry is a lawyer. Mr. Walter J. Boggs, of this class, 
who was a student during the years i890-'96, and the 
recipient of many honors, went to Georgetown from 
Rhetoric and was graduated there; he is now a member 
of the legal profession in the city. 

At the Commencement, June 23, 1898, at the Lyceum 
Theatre, eight students of the class of Philosophy 
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts: — Wilson J. A. 
Carroll, J. Albert Chatard, Daniel J. Coyne, Joseph S. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 143 

Didusch, James I. Donellan, Thomas F. L,owe, J. Pres- 
ton W. McNeal, John A. Powers. Mr. Didusch, who 
received many honors, is now a Jesuit scholastic. Mr. 
McNeal, who received high honors, is now a railroad 
official. Mr. Carroll is a lawyer. Messrs. Chatard and 
Lowe are physicians. Mr. Donellan is a journalist, and 
Mr. Powers a bookkeeper. 

At the closing exercises of the Academic or College 
Preparatory classes, June 21, 1899, the story of Rip 
Van Winkle was given as a public exercise, with the 
following division: "Rip at Home," Jacob P. Jarboe; 
"Rip and Hendrick Hudson's Crew," Hilary Lucke; 
"Rip Wakes Up," John G. Barrett; "Rip at the Inn," 
William F. Braden. 

At the Commencement on June 22, 1899, the degree 
of A.B. was conferred on the following students of the 
class of Philosophy: — Peter A. Callahan, Andrew C. 
Engelhardt, I. Leo Hargadon, Joseph A. Herzog, C. 
Justin Kennedy, John H. McManus, Francis X. Mil- 
holland, Thomas J. O'Donnell. Mr. Callahan is a sur- 
veyor and engineer; Mr. Engelhardt an ecclesiastical 
student; Mr. Hargadon a Jesuit scholastic; Mr. Herzog 
a bank official; Mr. Milholland a railroad official, and 
Mr. O'Donnell a medical student. Mr. Charles M. Kelly, 
after two years' attendance at the evening lectures, 
when he was already a Bachelor of Arts, received the 
degree of Ph.D. He delivered the Doctor's Oration on 
"Arbitration;" and as this is a subject of living interest 
and hopeful import, perhaps some extracts from it will 
be interesting here. 

ARBITRATION. 

We are going to ask you a unique question: How long does it 
take a nation to grow from infancy to manhood? With the 
individual man this question is easily answered; for physiolo- 



144 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

gists have determined the number of years required to pass 
from infancy to boyhood and finally to manhood. But the 
philosophy of history has failed to show us how long it takes a 
nation to develop from infancy to manhood; because a nation, 
though composed of physical beings, is in itself a moral being, 
an organism that results from the free actions of men who are 
bound by moral laws, a union of rational beings that conspire 
to a common good. 

Hence you see that the human will may alter progress or cause 
retrogression in the life of a people. The time must come in the 
life of every nation when that nation considers itself matured or 
in its manhood, free and independent of all other earthly powers. 
When a people declare that they are, and of right ought to be, 
free and independent, no other nation can lawfully make this 
matured nation a dependency. Every nation must grow with 
the flight of years; but that growth must be an internal one, and 
it cannot lawfully be brought about by foreign conquests. 
Nature tends per se to render its works more perfect; and it is 
absurd that nature, which is the primitive impulse of the Creator 
to His works, should tend to what is imperfect. History will not 
deal leniently with any nation that destroys the tendency toward 
perfection in human societies, by subjugating or overpowering a 
people, and holding sway where another nation formerly ruled. 
There is a law of contraries that every logician must admit, and 
which now from war and strife and despotism carries us to the 
plan of general disarmament. This would certainly please both 
Americans and colonists, and we would altogether favor it, were 
it not possible that when a general disarmament takes place, the 
enemy of mankind might at once stimulate a party or a sect to 
rise fully equipped and destroy all thrones, shatter all crowns 
and powers, and proclaim anarchy. If a general disarmament 
takes place, not all dissensions have come to an end. There 
will be need then of an international board of arbitration that 
will settle all claims and keep mankind in friendship. This will 
be done by a board of arbitration that has now come to be a pros- 
pective fact. And to the honor of the Church let it be said, that 
some three years ago the three Cardinals of the English-speaking 
world gave forth to the world a petition embodying this plan of 
an international board of arbitration, and have thus the honor 
of having been the foremost promoters of an era of universal 
peace. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 145 

At the Commencement on June 25, 1900, in the new 
Hall of the College, the addresses of the graduates 
were on the Philippine Islands, as follows: "The Phil- 
ippines under Spain," J. Frank Dammann, Jr.; "The 
Educational Problem in them for the United States," 
George M. Brady; "The Religious Problem for the 
United States," John L. Gipprich; "The Property 
Problem for the United States," Francis O. Goldbach. 
Six students of the class of Philosophy received the 
degree of A.B.: George M. Brady, J. Frank Dammann, 
Jr., John D. Gipprich, Francis O. Goldbach, Joseph A. 
Mooney, Joseph J. Zimmerman. An eloquent address 
to the graduates was given by Judge N. Charles Burke, 
LX.D. Right Reverend Bishop Curtis presided, and con- 
ferred the degrees and honors. 

Father Morgan's greatest work was, perhaps, the 
erection of the new building. Its plan, as made by the 
architect, was placed in the hands of the builder in 
1898, and the dwellings on Monument street were torn 
down to make room for it; and in 1899 ^ was com " 
pleted, and the Commencement exercises of that year 
were held in its handsome and spacious new Hall. 
I,oyola College now, with the Church and the new 
building, is one of the most imposing structures in the 
city. In the basement on Monument street is a large 
gymnasium, with all the appliances for physical culture; 
on the floor above are many class rooms, bright and 
airy; over these is the Hall, with its ample stage and 
scenery, holding its place among the best auditoriums of 
the city; and still above is the well-lighted library, spa- 
cious enough to accommodate the large number of books 
of the College, and many more that may be added. 

The new College was blessed by His Eminence, Car- 
dinal Gibbons, on October 5th, 1899, and the event was 



146 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

celebrated by music and addresses in the Hall before an 
audience of parents of the students and other friends of 
the institution. 

Father Morgan after his long administration was re- 
lieved of his burden in August, 1900, and transferred 
to St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia, as assistant 
pastor. In July, 1901, on account of impaired health 
and the excessive heat, he sought the cooler air of 
Worcester, Mass., where he remained at Holy Cross 
College, until in the spring of 1902 he was removed to 
Leonardtown, Md., and thence in September following 
to St. Aloysius' Church, Washington. 

We shall bring the present chapter to a close with 
the mention of one whose name is still fondly remem- 
bered by many of his former friends and pupils here in 
Baltimore, the Rev. Anthony M. Mandalari, S.J., 
whose great benignity of character and gentleness of 
manner endeared him to all with whom he came in con- 
tact. Father Mandalari was by birth an Italian; but he 
left his native laud in his youth to devote his life to the 
service of God in America. His connection with Loyola 
began in the year 1871, when he was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at the 
College, a position he successfully filled for a period 
of three years. In 1896 he returned to Loyola, where 
he occupied the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy 
until the year 1899, from which he was transferred to 
the professorship of Mental Philosophy at the Jesuit 
House of Studies, at Woodstock, Md., where he 
remained one year. As a professor Father Mandalari was 
able and zealous. He was taken with his last sickness, 
pneumonia, while discharging the duties of Professor of 
Philosophy at Gonzaga College, Washington, and after 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 147 

less than a week's illness he died in the most edifying 
sentiments of piety and religious fervor, at the George- 
town University Hospital, on the 4th of March, 1902, in 
the sixtieth year of his age. 



The following bequests and foundations were made 
during Father Morgan's term of office as President: — 

BEQUESTS. 

Mrs. Mary Virginia Sims Carr, -who died in July, 1899, left 
$5,000 as a bequest for a Professorship, which, taken with her 
other bequests, aggregated the sum of $17,000. 

Mr. Edward Kearney, in 1898, made a bequest of $2,500. 

SCHOLARSHIPS. 

The Martin Scholarship, founded by Miss Winifred Martin. 
The Barnum Scholarship, founded by Miss Annie Barnum. 
The Whiteford Scholarship, founded by Mrs. Celinda White- 
ford. 
The Bannon Scholarship, founded by Miss Bridget Bannon. 
The St. Ignatius Scholarship, founded by A Friend. 
The Riordan Scholarship, founded by Timothy Riordan. 
The Whelan Scholarship, founded by Thomas A. Whelan. 
The Xavier Scholarship, founded by A Friend. 

MEDALS. 

The Myers Medal, the gift of William P. Myers. 

The McNeal Medal, the gift of J. V. McNeal. 

The Grindall Medal, the gift of Dr. Charles S. Grindall. 



XII. 



ADMINISTRATION OF FATHER BRETT— FATHER QUIRK 

ELEVENTH PRESIDENT. 

1900-1902. 



Rev. William P. Brett, S.J., Professor of Rational 
Philosophy at the College, succeeded Father Morgan as 
President. He had made his classical studies at Boston 
College, and after entering the Society of Jesus, passed 
through its full course of philosophy and theology with 
eminent success. He taught the higher classes for sev- 
eral years in the College at Worcester, Mass., and after- 
ward held the high position of Professor of Dogmatic 
Theology at the Collegium Maximum of the Society of 
Jesus at Woodstock, where its young men make their 
higher studies before ordination. He also held the posi- 
tion of Vice-President at Georgetown College, D. C, 
and St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia. He was, there- 
fore, well prepared to preside over the destinies of L/Oyola. 
He possessed in middle age the energy of youth, and gave 
a new impulse to the work of the College in all its parts. 
But at the end of one scholastic year, just as he passed 
the Senior or Philosophy class for graduation, he was 
transferred to the more responsible position of President 
of Woodstock College, to direct the formation of the 

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Rev. William P. Brett, S.J. 



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teachers, preachers and missionaries of the Society of 
Jesus. 

On February 4th, 1901, a play was given in the College 
Hall by the Dramatic Association of the students, 
entitled "A Celebrated Case." 

The printed program of the play gave a list of dramatic 
performances given by the students of Loyola during the 
preceding fifteen years, as follows: i885~'86, "Feli- 
cian," "King Alfred;" i886-'87, "King John;" 1887- 
1888, "Henry IV.;" i888-'89, "The Cross of St. John's;" 
i889-'90, "The Undergraduates;" 1890-91, "Damon 
and Pythias;" 1891-92, "Pizarro;" 1892-93, "William 
Tell;" i8 9 3-'94, "King John;" i8 9 4-'95, "Henry IV.;" 
i895-'96, "Damon and Pythias;" i896-'97, "Guy Man- 
nering;" 1897-98, "The Man in the Iron Mask;" 1899- 
1900, "Sebastian, the Roman Martyr," "The Mikado." 

Credit should be given this year to Dr. Francis P. 
Murphy, for the Susan Murphy Medal, founded by him 
in memory of his mother. 

Mention should be made here of Rev. John S. Hollo- 
han , SJ. , who was Professor of Humanities and Prefect 
of Discipline at Loyola in the year iSgo-'gi, and who 
discharged the duties of Prefect of Studies and Discip- 
line at the College during the years 1 899-1901. During 
his last year his health showed signs of failing, but as 
he was only in the thirty-seventh year of his age, little 
fear was entertained for his life. As his condition grad- 
ually became worse, he was advised by his physicians to 
retire for awhile to some hospital to obtain the rest and 
medical care of which he stood in need. In a short 
time it became evident that a critical operation on the 
spine was necessary, an operation which Fr. Hollohan 
underwent at the Georgetown University Hospital, in 



150 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Washington. For awhile it seemed that the operation 
had been successful, and the Father appeared to be 
recovering; but a sudden change for the worse took place, 
and the physicians saw that the end must come after a 
few hours. His death was most edifying and his prepar- 
ation for it most touching. When he realized that death 
was so near, he bade his sorrowing relatives gathered 
about his bedside good-bye, telling them that the short 
time of his life that remained belonged solely to God. 
As it was the season of the Jubilee granted by our Holy 
Father, the Pope, he sent for his confessor, Father 
McAtee, to obtain a commutation of the conditions for 
obtaining the Jubilee indulgence. After having edified 
and won by his patience and gentleness, all those who 
had attended him during his stay at the hospital, Father 
Hollohan breathed his last on April 12, 1901. 

Father Brett was succeeded as President, in June, 1901, 
by Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J. L,ike his predecessor, he 
had passed through a training well calculated to fit him 
for his new position, having been several years Pro- 
fessor of Rhetoric at Fordham College, New York 
City, Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga College, 
Washington, and during the three years preceding his 
appointment to the Presidency of L,oyola, Prefect of 
Studies at Boston College. An important function of his 
administration has been to preside over the celebra- 
tion of the Golden Jubilee of the College. 

On the evening of April 7th, 1902, there was a reunion 
at a banquet at the Carrollton Hotel, of the Alumni of 
the College, preliminary to their reunion at the Jubilee 
solemnity in the autumn. The banquet-hall on the first 
floor of the hotel was decorated with palms and was brill- 
iantly lighted. Seated at the long tables were sixty 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 15 1 

gentlemen representing the various professional and mer- 
cantile callings, nearly all of them graduates or former 
students. The genial President of the Alumni Associa- 
tion, Mr. Arthur V. Milholland of the Baltimore bar, 
presided, with Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J., President of the 
College, on his right, and Judge N. Charles Burke, of 
Towson, on his left. Several Fathers from the College 
were present, besides a number of priests from among the 
Alumni. Mr. Charles M. Kelly, of the legal profession, 
the energetic and faithful Secretary of the Alumni 
Association, read a number of letters from absent mem- 
bers expressing regret at their inability to be present. 
We subjoin one from among the many, with its expres- 
sions of sincere devotion to the College: 

Baltimore, Md., April 5th, 1902. 
My dear Mr. Milholland: 

I regret very much that I shall 
not be able to be present on the evening of the 7th, at the 
banquet of the Alumni Association of Loyola College. 

I am especially sorry not to be able to express by my presence, 
my sympathy with the Association and my lasting affection for, 
and obligation to, the College, to which I owe so many cherished 
memories of happy days and noble men, many of whom have 
gone to their well-earned rest. The recollection of their efforts 
to humanize the crudeness of our youth, of their gentleness, 
faithfulness and unceasing interest in our welfare, has always 
been to me one of the choicest memories. 

Trusting that your meeting will abound in good cheer as it 
should, 

I am very truly yours, 

F. H. Hack. 

Mr. Milholland made an address of welcome breathing 
cordiality and good-fellowship, and brightened with 
good humor and witticism. When the banquet had been 



152 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

partaken of, Mr. J. Austin Fink, the well-known lawyer, 
acted as toastmaster and proved himself eminently fitted 
for this function. After some witty remarks and plea- 
sant allusions to former college days, he announced the 
toasts:— "The State of Maryland," "Education" and 
"The College." Judge Burke, Mr. Michael A. Mul- 
lin, well-known in legal circles, and Father Quirk re- 
sponded. Judge Burke's manly speech enlivened the 
company and won repeated applause. It contained 
true patriotic sentiment, sound sense and pleasant flashes 
of wit and humor. Mr. Mullin's subject was a difficult 
one, because so much talked about; and although he 
disclaimed elaborate preparation, he expressed sound 
and beautiful sentiments on education. Part of Presi- 
dent Quirk's address ought to be quoted here, because 
in it he developed the significant idea of the worth of 
the smaller college. He said: 

Mother! Alma Mater! Such is the word that I could wish 
to ring the changes on this evening; such is the only word that 
voices aright the office and function of the true college. The 
college has, it is true, the duty of developing intellect, of 
improving the forces of mind and body; but in a much higher 
degree is she the nursing mother of man as a whole, as the 
responsible author of human words and deeds, as a factor for 
good or evil in Christian society. This function, if rightly per- 
formed, constitutes education; it gives us, as a result, the 
rounded and accomplished gentleman. Such has been the aim, 
such, I would maintain, has been the achievement of our Col- 
lege of Loyola in regard to those whom she has held to her 
bosom and enfolded in her arms. She has been a true-hearted 
and keen-eyed Cornelia among mothers; she has looked upon 
her sons as the best jewels of her adornment. Perhaps it is not 
making too great a digression to allude to the claims of the 
smaller college in this particular matter of the education of 
youth, in order to emphasize her peculiar fitness for such a work, 
and her special place in the economy of education to-day. In 



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the past the smaller college has had an enviable record of great 
and brilliant men and minds to boast of among her sons. The 
greatest scholars and statesmen of our country's history have 
been nurtured and cradled in the smaller college. Have we not 
heard a Webster speak of his college home in accents of touch- 
ing pathos? "It is a small college, but there are those 'who love 
it." So it has been with many another exalted career. It is in 
the very character of the smaller college that we find its aptness 
for the work of training the heart, and founding the character of 
the man and the social factor. The very numbers, limited as 
they are, in a college of this kind, allow of special care on the 
part of instructor and professor. Nay, I will go further and say 
that where mind and character are being developed, they 
demand this excellent care and guidance. Where numbers 
make the difference and give an audience in place of a class, 
the teacher gains a larger hearing, but his influence as a precep- 
tor loses in direct proportion. It is this special art of teaching, 
of instructing individual mind and heart that constitutes the 
special excellence of the smaller college, yields her a greater 
influence and dignifies her with the title of Mother. When, 
however, to her maternal character the college further adds that 
of being religious; when she daily points to the Cross as the 
noblest emblem of human life — then education has assumed her 
loftiest instrument of teaching, then has the college become 
the nursing mother not only of the mind, but of the heart; not 
only of the natural man, but of the soul and of the citizen of 
heaven. Such has been the happy privilege Loyola and her 
kindred colleges. She has fulfilled the very noblest ideal of the 
college in Christian education, looking to the integrity of her 
child and charge not merely for time, but for eternity. Have I 
not vindicated her claim to the title, Alma Mater, the Fostering 
Mother? 

During the winter and spring of 1902, a series of 
instructive entertainments were given in the Hall before 
friends of the College, as follows: February 27, "Illus- 
trated Lecture on the Passion Play," by Mr. K. D. F. 
Brady, A.M., of Washington; March 13, "Book and 
Magazine Illustration," illustrated, by Rev. John Bros- 



154 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

nan, S.J.; April i, "The Crusades," illustrated, by- 
Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S.J.; April 10, "Reading of the 
Ancient Mariner," by students, illustrated; April 17, 
"Concert," under the direction of Miss Helen Linhard; 
April 24, "Illustrated Lecture on Joan of Arc," by 
Mr. E. D. F. Brady, A.M. The entertainments were well 
patronized and gave much satisfaction. 

On December 19, 1901, the Dramatic Association pre- 
sented in the Hall a play entitled "King Robert of 
Sicily," which was very entertaining and instructive; 
the students acquitted themselves in their usual credit- 
able manner. 

We have before us a copy of the theses in Latin from 
Rational Philosophy on which the Philosophy (Senior) 
class were examined in June, 1902, for graduation. It 
is the highest of all the studies in the College course, 
the completion and crown of all; and it is calculated 
to be most effective in maturing and strengthening the 
mind of the student. In the theses no mention is made 
of the first chapter in Philosophy, Aristotle's Dialec- 
tics or Minor Logic, in which the idea, the judgment 
and the methods of correct reasoning, are explained; 
this introduction is supposed known. The Latin theses 
are forty in number; a few of the more important of 
these may perhaps give the reader some idea of the 
nature of the subjects which claim the student's atten- 
tion during his last year at college. 

Ex Logica et Metaphysica. 

Datur veri uorninis certitude Quapropter dubitatio universa- 
lis, turn vulgaris scepticoruiu, turn scientifica Cartesianorum 
omnino rejicienda est. 

Judicia quit sensuura relationibus iiinituutur falsa esse per se 
uequeuut, quaudo constat sensus fuisse recte dispositos et con- 
venieuter adliibitos. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 55 

Habet mens nostra ideas universales; ac dicendum est eas 
efiormari a mente cum f undamento in re. 

Evidentia non subjective sed objective spectata est universale 
criterium veritatis et ultimum motivum certitudinis. 

Testimonium humanum potest esse motivum infallibile certi- 
tudinis. 

Origo mundi explicari nequit per existentiam materiae impro- 
ductse; nee per emanationem a Divina substantia, ut volunt Pan- 
theistae; sed explicari debet per productionem rerum ex nihilo. 

Non solum miracula sunt possibilia, sed etiam potest huuiana 
mens in multis casibus ea discernere. 

Datur in homine facultas cognoscitiva a materia intrinsece 
independens, cujus objectum est omne ens. 

Datur in homine appetitus rationalis seu voluntas, quae liber- 
tate gaudet. 

Anima humana est simplex, spiritualis et immortalis. 

Existentia Dei probari potest argumento metaphysico, physico 
et morali. 

Ex Ethica. 

Datur hominis ultimus finis, qui in nullo bono creato reponi 
potest; sed consistit in solo Deo. 

Existit lex naturalis, quae intrinsece immutabilis est, et quoad 
generaliora praecepta a nemine qui rationis sit compos, inviuci- 
biliter ignoratur. 

Homo tenetur Deum colere cultu turn interno turn externo; 
quapropter indifierentia in re religionis est absurda. 

Jus proprietatis etiam stabilis est a naturae lege sancitum; Com- 
munistarum igitur et Socialistarum theoriae sunt injustae et 
absurdae. 

Societas civilis a natura, ideoque a Deo oritur; unde auctoritas 
civilis a Deo originem ducit. 

At the Commencement, the fiftieth in the history of 
the College, held June 19th, 1902, the address to the 
graduates was by Rev. Charles F. Kelly, S.J., who was 
a professor at IyOyola nearly fifty years ago, in the years 



I56 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

i854-'56, and later in i86q-'7i. He recalled the first 
years of Loyola in two modest dwellings on Hol- 
liday street, near the theatre. Its poverty, he said, 
in the material goods of this world was great, but 
not its intellectual poverty. Father Stonestreet, who 
was Provincial during the first years of the College, 
was a Marylander, proud of his State, and was said 
to have been particularly partial in the Faculty as- 
signed to the new institution. The first President was 
Father Early, a man of dignity, whose amiable char- 
acter won the love of those who knew him. There also 
was Father Ward, whose learning fitted him to teach 
any class at short notice; Father William F. Clarke, 
theologian, orator, polished literary scholar, perfect re- 
ligious and courteous Maryland gentleman; Father 
Ciampi, an Italian from Rome, an accomplished I^at- 
inist; Father Charles King, a polished literary and clas- 
sical scholar, an attractive lecturer and skilful musician. 

The course pursued in the College, he said, is not of 
recent invention, but has been tried for more than three 
hundred years; it has formed many great men, such 
as Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Archbishop John 
Carroll. It may be thought that because the course 
is old, it is antiquated; but its very conservatism 
saves it from the serious defects of some of the present 
educational methods; while the successful results of its 
application in the case of those who submit themselves 
to its training are ample proof that it is fully in touch 
with all that is truly progressive in the education of 
to-day. 

It was but fitting that for the Jubilee Commencement 
exercises a topic should be chosen suggestive of the 
work of the College and the purpose of its institution, 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 157 

and so the graduating class discussed the nature and 
necessity of true education. The orations on the occa- 
sion were the following: — "The True Schooling," Law- 
rence A. Brown; "God in the Class-Room," Austin D. 
Nooney; "Educational Mistakes," Mark O. Shriver; 
"The Catholic Educator in Maryland" (valedictory), 
J. Elliot Ross. 

The first speaker maintained that if education means 
the harmonious development of the whole man, the 
attention paid to the different faculties must be in pro- 
portion to their dignity, and any system that would 
perfect the sensitive and reasoning faculties of the soul 
and leave untutored the heart and will, yea more, that 
would not make the culture of the will its primary end 
and the sole purpose of its training of the intellect, 
would be unworthy of the name of education. 

The second speaker, arguing from the nature of the 
intellect and will, whose longing for the true and good 
can be satisfied only by possession of Infinite Truth and 
Goodness, proved the necessity of insisting on those 
eternal truths which flow from man's relation to his 
Maker, and which mark out for him his line of conduct 
through life. Development of the will is utterly impos- 
sible without the constant inculcation of those true 
religious principles which alone can curb the wild 
impulse of passion, and beget and cherish in the will an 
ardent love for what is right and just, a constancy in 
the performance of its different duties. Hence to bar 
God and His teachings from the class-room would work 
the destruction rather than the development of the 
rational nature. 

The third speaker then considered some of the so- 
called progressive methods of a few modern educators, 
laying especial stress on the evils of electivism as 



158 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

advocated for the lower schools, and showing the insur- 
mountable difficulties that must needs attend such elec- 
tion. 

The Valedictorian closed the subject with a brief 
account of the results achieved by the true system of 
education in the hands of the Catholic educator in Mary- 
land. He showed that the methods of the Catholic 
Church, the first to introduce education into our State, 
had moulded the character of our people while enrich- 
ing their minds, and had inspired true patriotism in 
them with a love of honor and righteousness and a fidel- 
ity to duty towards God and man. He gave us reasons 
why we, the children of the one true Church of Christ, 
should be proud of the work our mother has done, 
should glory in the development and enlightenment she 
has wrought to take the place of the darkness and igno- 
rance our fathers encountered when they came here seek- 
ing a spot for the free worship of their Creator. 

During Father Quirk's term of office and during the 
course of the Jubilee Year the following foundations 
and donations were made: — 

SCHOLARSHIPS. 

The Milholland Scholarship, founded by Miss Rose Milhol- 
land, in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
V. Milholland, deceased. 

The Sodality Scholarship, founded by the Sodality of St. 
Ignatius' Church, in memory of Rev. Francis A. Smith, SJ. 

The Flood Scholarship, founded by Miss Margaret Flood. 

The St. Aloysius Scholarship, founded by the Sunday- 
school of St. Ignatius' Church, in honor of the Reverend 
Director. 

MEDALS. 

The Carrell Medal, founded by the Misses Eliza and Ellen 
Jenkins, in memory of their uncle, the Rt. Rev. George A. 
Carrell, S.J., D.D., Bishop of Covington. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 59 

The Hon. A. Leo Knott, Miss Annie Hollohan, and friends from 
among the secular and regular clergy of the diocese, have gener- 
ously donated medals in different years. 

The Sodality also defrayed the expenses of re-frescoing the 
parlors and of restoring the paintings for the celebration of the 
Jubilee. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 

The College Faculty express their grateful acknowledgment 
of the generosity of the following among their benefactors: — 

The members of the Sodality of Our Lady, who defrayed the 
expense of re-frescoing the College parlors and of restoring the 
paintings for the celebration of the Jubilee. 

The members of the Jubilee Fund Committee, through whose 
personal generosity and zeal the sum of $5,000 was subscribed 
by the friends of the College for the purpose of reducing the 
College debt. 

The subscribers in general to the Jubilee Fund, and Mr. 
George C. Jenkins, Mr. Henry Walters, and Mrs. Jennie Abell 
Homer in particular, for their generous donations. 

The Rev. Edmund Didier, who donated to the College a piece 
of property of the value of $5,000, the money realized on its 
sale to be devoted to the lessening of the College debt. 



XIII. 



THE COURSE GIVEN AT THE COLLEGE— ITS NATURE 

AND VALUE. 



Before i860, there were two sessions daily, morning 
and afternoon, with an interruption of two hours and a 
half at mid-day; since that time there has been but one 
Session. At present the hours of class are from 9 a.m. 
to 2.30 p.m., with a quarter of an hour's recess at half- 
past ten, and a recess of forty minutes at 12.25. 

All the Catholic students, except such as are excused, 
must attend Mass in the church at 8.30 every morning; 
they are thoroughly instructed in their holy religion 
and are mildly required to fulfil its duties. To aid them 
in piety and encourage them in the practice of their 
religion, there are two sodalities or pious associations 
among them, the Sodality of the Most Blessed Virgin 
for the older students, and the Sodality of the Holy 
Angels for the smaller boys. A weekly meeting of each 
sodality is held after class hours, at which devotional 
exercises are performed and an instruction given by the 
director, who is a member of the Faculty. 

Non-Catholics also of good character are received at 
the College; nor do its directors interfere with their 
religious convictions, or force upon them any duties 

(160) 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. l6l 

distinctively Catholic. Polite and gentlemanly behavior 
is impressed upon all the students; any conduct to the 
contrary being discountenanced and firmly corrected. 

The library is a valuable one of about 30,000 volumes; 
of these about 2,000 volumes are in the students' 
library. 

The present course of Loyola College comprises the 
following classes: — the first, second, third and fourth 
Academic classes, known to students in the earlier years 
of the College as second and third classes of Humanities, 
and first and second classes of Rudiments; and Freshman, 
Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes, known in former 
years as first class of Humanities, Poetry, Rhetoric and 
Philosophy. The four classes first mentioned are the 
Junior or Preparatory Collegiate classes; the last four, 
the Senior or Collegiate classes proper. There is also a 
class known as Special Classics, for those students who 
enter the College somewhat advanced in English, and in 
which they are taught Latin and Greek sufficient to fit 
them for a class corresponding to their proficiency. In 
the Preparatory classes are taught the English, Latin 
and Greek grammars, and reading of Latin and Greek; 
English composition, correct translation of English into 
Latin; elocution, geography, history; penmanship, and 
in a separate hour daily through successive years, 
arithmetic, book-keeping, and algebra. Through several 
years of the Preparatory and Collegiate courses, at a 
separate hour is taught French or German, according 
to option. In the Collegiate classes are taught English, 
Latin and Greek; writing of Latin and English in prose 
and verse, rhetoric, elocution; geography, history, 
geometry and higher mathematics, the natural sciences; 
in the last year logic, metaphysics and ethics, more 



I 62 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

commonly understood as mental and moral philosophy, 
from I^atin text-books; and through the whole course, 
Christian doctrine. Boys fairly mature and advanced 
in an English education, may pass easily through the 
Preparatory classes in two years; and talented students 
of unusual application have made even the Collegiate 
course in three years. 

The aim of the whole course is to form cultivated, 
enlightened, educated Christian gentlemen; and it is 
claimed to be an excellent preparation for the study and 
pursuit of any of the higher professions, especially law, 
medicine and the sacred ministry. This ought to be clear 
to the intelligent reader from the sketch just given. 

However, Baltimore is a great commercial city, and 
many of its youth look forward to a commercial or bus- 
iness career; and it has often been said that the educa- 
tion of L,oyola College is not a fit preparation for such a 
career. This may be the reason why the number of its 
students is not what it should be for a great city with a 
population of over 500,000 souls, after having struggled 
to fulfil its mission so many years. This objection could 
never be made if the subject were carefully examined 
into. It is not formally a business college; it is not a 
manual training school; but just as a special education is 
required after the college course, for the practice of law 
or medicine, so when the boy has been duly trained 
mentally and morally, and has grown into the young 
man, he requires a special training for business life 
at the business college or in the mercantile house. 
Will any one who reads attentively the sketch just 
given of the curriculum of Loyola College fail to see 
that the branches taught are eminently fitted for the 
preliminary education of an intelligent business man? We 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 63 

strongly urge all who wish to become cultivated and 
enlightened Christian gentlemen, to complete, if they 
can, the whole course; but we claim that even a few 
years of the incomplete course are an excellent prepa- 
ration for any intelligent avocation in life. The great 
bugbear is found in Latin and Greek, and many objec- 
tions are made against their share in the course of 
Loyola College, all of which, however, can be well 
answered. 

In our day there has been a contest between the ad- 
vocates of the Classics on the one hand, and those of 
the Natural Sciences or Modern Languages on the 
other, as educational agents. Remarking that Loyola 
College embraces in its course Mathematics, the Natural 
Sciences and Modern Languages, especially our own 
English and its noble literature, we say that those who 
wish to be educated Catholic gentlemen should be 
pleased to have Latin as a part of their College course, 
from the fact that it is the living language of the 
Catholic Church, has been so for 1900 years, and most 
probably will be to the end of time. Nay, more; it is 
claimed that the best system for training the mind and 
its powers, is that which includes, as does the course of 
Loyola College, Latin and Greek as a principal part. 
Passing over other proofs which might be given of this 
in our own words or those of others, we will cite part of 
a demonstration of it from Blackwood's Edinburgh 
Magazine of February, 1871, a periodical which is 
neither Jesuit nor Catholic, and is believed to contain 
the expression of the best minds using the English 
language : 

What is the use, then, of making a boy spend so many years 
in the study of Greek and Latin? This is the cause which 
classical scholars are summoned to defend. But the nature 



164 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

of the problem must be clearly understood. We do not 
dispute the expediency of teaching a certain amount of Arith- 
metic, Modern Languages, Geography and Physical Science 
to the young. We say that the quality of education is not 
to be measured by the amount of accurate information 
which it supplies. A sailor knows how to navigate a ship, 
and a shipwright how to build one; a Birmingham artisan is 
deeply versed in the nature of metals and skill to work them; a 
watchmaker displays a vast amount of delicate skill in the con- 
struction of a chronometer. If accurate knowledge is education, 
must not mechanics and artisans be ranked amongst the most 
highly educated minds of a nation? And is not this a reductio ad 
absurdum? It is not the knowledge actually acquired which is 
the true test of education, but the power of thinking developed 
and the ability acquired to employ with skill and success the 
various faculties of the mind. The educated man, then, is not 
the man who knows most things accurately, but he who has 
trained his mind to perform its work well, whatever that work 
may be. And here we affirm that for aiding the ends of this 
higher education no instruments are comparable to the Greek 
and Latin languages and their literature. In the first place, they 
are languages; they are not particular sciences, nor definite 
branches of knowledge, but literatures. It cannot be contested 
that they cultivate the taste and bestow great powers of expres- 
sion. The Greek and Latin writers have served as models of 
expression and taste for more than twenty centuries. 

But success iu the powerful and refined use of words is real- 
ized by few students. Skill in classic composition is unques- 
tionably a very distinguished accomplishment, but it is a gift 
bestowed only on the few. 

The educational value of Greek and Latin is something 
immeasurably broader than this simple accomplishment of refined 
taste and cultivated expression. The problem to be solved is to 
open out the undeveloped nature of the human being, to bring 
out his faculties and to impart skill in the use of them; to set the 
seeds of many powers growing; to give the boy, according to his 
circumstances, the largest practical acquaintance with life, — what 
it is composed of morally, intellectually and materially. When 
a boy reads Herodotus, Homer and Thucydides, Caesar, Cicero, 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 165 

Virgil and Horace, how many ideas has he acquired! How many 
regions of human life, how many portions of his own mind has 
he gained insight into! But is he able to reason? asks the mathe- 
matician. Is he not a slave to authority, a passive recipient of 
matters dropped into his ears but not reasoned out by his under- 
standing? inquires Professor Huxley. Can he correctly deduce 
conclusions from premises? Can he follow a chain of sequences 
and convert his knowledge into living truth? The answer is easy 
and decisive: he can do all these things, if he be properly 
handled by a competent teacher. 

Exactness is not the quality of knowledge to be solely aimed 
at in education, and that for a very decisive reason. The depart- 
ment of mathematics exhibits exact science, because composed 
of strictly logical deductions from definite premises. But those 
elements of man's nature which constitute by far the largest por- 
tion of his multiple existence, furnish no premises of this qual- 
ity. The truth which they furnish is contingent and probable, 
but not absolute truth. The motives which govern men's actions 
never act singly; one cannot say of a single motive: give it 
existence, and the resulting action will follow; for it is ever con- 
trolled by other motives, and the final resultant is hard to fore- 
tell. We have heard an eminent barrister, who was also a great 
mathematician, declare that one of the most embarrassing diffi- 
culties he had to encounter in the exercise of his profession was 
the inveterate habit, which his mathematical education had 
created, of assuming the perfect accuracy of his premises and 
the consequent absolute trustworthiness of the deductions which 
logic derived from them.* 

Greek and Latin are dead languages; and that is a character- 
istic of the highest value. What is the use, say money-seeking 
critics, of forcing our boys to learn languages which nobody 
speaks ? We answer that the literature is alive, and that the 
deadness of its languages is an invaluable quality for the pur- 
poses of education. Living languages are learned by the ear. 



'This testimony is quoted only to show the evil that may come from exces- 
sive attention given to mathematics in the education of the young, and the 
abnormal training that follows. It is not cited at all against the excellence 
and importance of mathematics as an educational instrument when it is 
given its proper place and only its due proportion of time in a collegiate 
education, as happens in our course. 



I 66 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Their possession need not denote much intellectual development 
in those who can speak them. Many a dull little boy, many an 
untutored peasant, can speak two or three languages; and yet but 
a small demand may have been made on the intellect for acquir- 
ing them. Modern languages are not difficult enough to compel 
the learner to look into the machinery of languages, much less 
into the thoughts of the writer or speaker, so as to grasp his 
meaning. It is precisely the reverse with a dead language, 
especially one whose construction does not coincide with that 
of a modern tongue. Every part of it is obscure; it must be 
learned by rule; the relations first of grammar, then of logic, 
must be carefully observed. In a dead language the land is 
strange, association does not unconsciously bring up the sense 
of each word, the mode of thinking is unfamiliar, and the links 
that bind words together have to be reached for, and can be found 
only by application of logic and grammar; hence such a dead 
language, in which we strive to master the thoughts and expres- 
sions of a great writer, is an educational machinery of supreme 
efficiency. Bnt there is a still greater advantage. In no other 
way can the student be so thoroughly compelled to come into 
the closest union with the mind of the writer, to enter into the 
very depths of the great man's being. 

The scientific element need not and ought not be absent. We 
would gladly see some portion of science, accurately and intelli- 
gently grasped, form a part of every classically trained boy and 
und ergraduate . 

This is an abridgment of the article in Blackwood 
in the same sense and almost in the same words. 

Before leaving this subject we will remark that it has 
been observed in other colleges, and in Loyola College 
in other days, when both courses were taught, that of 
two sections of students pursuing side by side the purely 
English or Commercial and the Classical courses, those 
in the latter, using the same English books as the 
others, were clearly superior in English. As to the 
question whether a classical course is a fit training for 
a business man, we might call to mind that Mr. Glad- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 167 

stone was the prince of business men, and at the same 
time a man of thoroughly classical education. Years 
ago one of the most distinguished United States Sena- 
tors, an eminent business lawyer, was on a visit to a 
Jesuit college at which many years before he had made 
a three-years' course, ending with the class of Poetry. 
Instead of regretting that he had followed the classical 
course, he expressd a sincere regret that he had not 
remained the two succeeding years until graduation, say- 
ing that he had always felt an incompleteness about 
himself for not having done so. 



XIV. 



FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE. 



Now a word about the financial condition of the Col- 
lege and its present needs. In 1852, when the Society 
of Jesus was asked to establish a college in Baltimore, 
it was thought that its citizens would extend a cordial 
welcome and all necessary pecuniary help to the Order 
which gave spiritual guides to the Pilgrims of the Ark 
and the Dove in 1634 in the persons of Fathers White 
and Altham, which gave Baltimore its first pastor, from 
Whitemarsh, Md., about 1757, its first resident priest, 
Father Charles Sewall, about 1784, its first two Bishops 
and Archbishops, Most Rev. John Carroll and Most Rev. 
Leonard Neale, and the Rector of Archbishop Carroll's 
Cathedral, Father Enoch Fenwick — for these were all 
Jesuits. 

The Order, again, which established Georgetown 
College, D. C, in 1789, the oldest Catholic college in 
the United States — whose forerunners, the classical 
school at Bohemia in Cecil County, Md., and another in a 
distant part of the State date back probably to 1640 — the 
same Order, it was believed, would be amply seconded in 
establishing the same educational course in L,oyola 

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College with similar professors. From the opening of 
the College on Holliday street the Fathers had to de- 
pend on the tuition fees of the students and the vol- 
untary contributions of friends. It is true that $22,000 
were given them from the funds belonging to the 
houses where the young men of the Society of Jesus 
received their priestly education, which, we may add, 
have little income of their own; but this sum was 
soon consumed in erecting the new College, and years 
afterwards had to be paid back. In 1853 or 1854, 
when they were searching for a piece of land for the 
erection of a new college and church, they were offered 
three sites — the one eventually selected on the corner 
of Calvert and Madison streets, another in the neigh- 
borhood of Cathedral and Richmond streets, and an- 
other at St. Paul and Chase streets. The property on 
Calvert street was by far the least eligible of the three, 
as things appear to us now; but it was selected by 
Father Early and the other Fathers from pecuniary con- 
siderations and for other reasons. Twenty-two thou- 
sand dollars was the price asked; and until that should 
be paid, a yearly interest or ground rent of $1,400. 
From 1853 or 1854, when the ground was taken, as 
the College could not pay the principal, it paid each 
year the $1,400 interest or ground rent; until at length 
Father McGurk in 1885 relieved it of that annual exac- 
tion by paying $32,000. This was a great increase 
on the original price; but the plea was that the property 
should have been bought within a stated number of 
years. Father Smith completed the payment of the 
debt which Father McGurk had lessened consider- 
ably. Father Morgan, however, by the erection of 
the new College, necessarily incurred a new debt, 



170 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

which is now about one hundred and fifty thousand; 
dollars. 

In conclusion, may we be permitted to wish that 
Loyola College may prosper far more in the future than 
in the past, as the Alma Mater of virtuous, enlightened/ 
and useful citizens. 

Loyola College, Baltimore, 
December, 1902. 



PART H. 

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 



CELEBRATION 

OF THE 

GOLDEN JUBILEE OF LOYOLA COLLEGE, 

NOVEttBER 24-28, 1902. 



The celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 
Foundation of L,oyola College was held during the last 
week of November of the year 1902. As announced in 
the public notices and formal invitations, the programme 
embraced the following exercises and events, religious, 
academic, and social: 

On the morning of Monday, November 24, at 9 o'clock, 
a Solemn Mass of Requiem was offered in the Church of 
St. Ignatius for the repose of the souls of the deceased 
alumni and students of the College. 

On Tuesday evening, November 25, at 5 o'clock, the 
College building was thrown open for the class-gather- 
ings of former graduates and students, and for inspection 
by friends and visitors. 

The formal Academic Exercises of the Golden Jubilee 
were held in the College Theatre, corner of Calvert and 
Monument streets, on Wednesday evening, November 
26, at 8 o'clock. 

On Thursday, November 27, at 10 a.m., a Solemn 
Pontifical Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated in the 
Church of St. Ignatius, corner of Calvert and Madison 

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streets. At the conclusion of the services, the visiting 
clergy and the members of the alumni were the guests 
of the Faculty at a banquet served in the College 
gymnasium. 

The celebration closed with the presentation of Shake- 
speare's tragedy of "Macbeth" by the alumni and stu- 
dents, in the College Theatre, on Thursday evening, at 
8 o'clock. The performance was complimentary to 
invited guests. A second presentation of the play for 
the general public was given on the evening following. 

The sentiment of deep-felt gratitude on the part of 
the Reverend President and Faculty in return for the 
kindly interest shown by the press and general public, 
in the College Jubilee, was clearly evinced in the notice 
read in the Church of St. Ignatius, at the services on 
Sunday, November 23: 

"The Fathers and Professors of the College take this 
opportunity of thanking the clergy and laity of the city , 
their friends and students for the many evidences of con- 
gratulation tendered by them to the College. Yet, 
while grateful for every token 'of this charity, they 
would humbly refer their best thanks and acknowledg- 
ments to the good God, who has vouchsafed to bestow 
the grace of this Jubilee and its celebration on His ser- 
vants and so honor them before men." 




Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J. 



SOLEMN AASS OF REQUIEM. 



On the morning of Monday, November 24, 1902, the 
celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founda- 
tion of Loyola College was inaugurated with a Solemn 
High Mass of Requiem in the Church of St. Ignatius, 
for the repose of the souls of deceased students and 
alumni. The ministers who officiated at the sacred 
function were the Reverend President of the College, 
Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J., celebrant; Rev. Francis X. 
Brady, S.J., deacon, and Mr. John J. Toohey, S.J., sub- 
deacon. The College Faculty were present within the 
sanctuary, while in the pews reserved for them in the 
centre aisle were seated the members of the alumni and 
the students. A large number of the congregation were 
also in attendance. The main altar was shrouded in 
black, and, except for the tall canonical candles on either 
side of the tabernacle and the candelabra about the 
catafalque, the church was devoid of illumination. The 
touching and impressive Service for the Dead seemed to 
receive an additional tenderness and solemnity from the 
thought, that the adorable Sacrifice of Atonement that 
was being offered before the throne of the Most High, 
was not only the prayer of the supplication of Holy 
Mother Church for the eternal rest of her departed 
children, but that it was also the voice of Alma Mater 
pleading for mercy and forgiveness for those among her 
sons whom death had removed from her care and 

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snatched from her embrace, but whose memory she 
cherishes with a love that knows no death. 

O Lord God Who art the Great Pardoner, grant rest 
and refreshment, peace and blessing, light and glory, unto 
the souls of Thy servants whose anniversary we this day 
commemorate. Through our Lord fesus Christ Thy Son, 
Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the 
Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. 
May they rest in peace. 



ALUMNI BANQUET. 



On Tuesday evening, November 25, at 8 o'clock, the 
members of the Alumni Association and a number of 
invited guests attended a Banquet at the Hotel Rennert. 
Many who were unable to be present in person sent 
letters of regret at their enforced absence. Seated about 
the tables in the beautifully decorated dining-room were 
Alumni and friends of Loyola to the number of one 
hundred and twelve; and the spirit of generous and 
cordial good-fellowship that pervaded the gathering, and 
the manifestation of warm and heartfelt loyalty and 
devotion to Alma Mater and the cause of conservative 
college education for which she stands forth so firmly, 
on the part of those who were privileged to speak, made 
the event a memorable one in the history of the Asso- 
ciation. 

The speakers were introduced by Mr. Francis T. 
Homer, A.M., who acted as toastmaster. When pre- 
sented to the company by the Chairman, Mr. Homer 
spoke warmly and urgently on the merits of Loyola's 
education. His words were full of that unction which 
springs from the heart. The toasts were: 

Our Alma Mater, . . Rev. John D. Boland, A.M. 
The American College, . . . Ira Remsen, LL.D. 
President Johns Hopkins University. 
"Salve, Mater Alma" (Poem), Rev. M. J. Byrnes, S.J. 
Conservative Education, Hon. W. J. O'Brien, LL.D. 

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178 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

College Education, . . . Charles M. Kelly, Ph.D. 
Loyola: The Home-Harvesting, Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J. 

President Loyola College. 

The soloist of the evening was Dr. B. Merrill Hop- 
kinson. The frequent selections rendered by him in his 
peculiarly rich and musical voice greatly enhanced the 
pleasure of the occasion. 

In response to the toast "Our Alma Mater," Reverend 
John D. Boland, A.M., spoke as follows: 



OUR ALMA MATER. 

Fifty years ago, what is now known as Doyola College 
began in this City of Baltimore its grand and noble 
work of Christian education; a work that had been 
inaugurated half a century before, and that had been 
carried on with undoubted and unqualified success by a 
body of men, whose wise counsel, mature judgment, and 
fatherly guidance, whose beautiful example, whose 
daily lives of self-sacrificing loyalty and devotion to 
duty made them an honor to the Church and a credit to 
society. I mean the Sulpician Fathers of old St. Mary's 
Seminary. The Jesuit Fathers have proved themselves 
in every way worthy successors of these illustrious 
teachers. Their presence here, their influence, and 
power, and example, exercised and disseminated through 
the medium of Doyola College, have been a veritable 
blessing to this community. 

During all these fifty years, the work of our Alma 
Mater has been carried on by a large number of loyal, 
noble, true, and devoted men, brilliant of intellect, gen- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 1 79 

erous of heart, sterling of character, faithful to duty; 
men with one thought influencing and underlying their 
every act, with one ambition, towards the realization of 
which they have devoted all the strength of their intel- 
lect, all the power of their will, all the love of their 
heart; namely, to prepare young men for the great 
battle of life; to send them out into the world, enlight- 
ened and fortified, protected and safe-guarded by the 
two-fold armor of science and religion, knowledge and 
virtue, education and morality. 

Loyola College taught us, Gentlemen, as well as those 
who went before, and those who came after us, that 
"knowledge is power," vast, mighty, far-reaching in its 
effect; but she taught us also, that knowledge supported 
by morality, knowledge supported by virtue, knowledge 
supported by religion, is the noblest, the highest, the 
grandest power in God's world; that it is the only 
power that will preserve our Government, keep the 
moral bonds of society strong and secure, maintain peace 
and good-will among all classes, and create and develop 
a sense of duty and justice, so that men will work 
together harmoniously and successfully for the best 
interests of God and society, all of which implies clean 
thought, honesty of purpose, respect for the rights of 
others, a manly and fearless determination to do our 
duty, to do it at all times regardless of consequences, to 
do it faithfully and well. 

L/Oyola College has sent out into this community a 
large number of young men, not only with their intel- 
lects trained in human science, but with their hearts 
moulded by the saving principles of Christian virtue; 
she has sent them out into a world where temptation 
surrounds them on every side and at every turn of life; 



180 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

temptation against purity, against temperance, against 
honesty; temptation against every civil and domestic 
virtue. She has taught them that in this battle between 
virtue and sin, between truth and error, between honesty 
and corruption, they would need at all times the uplift- 
ing and sustaining power of God's grace; that if they 
depended solely upon their own natural endowments and 
qualifications they would not succeed. She has impressed 
upon their young minds and hearts that actions alone do 
not make character; that actions alone do not refine, or 
elevate, or ennoble man; that it is pre-eminently the 
thought, the motive, the spiritual principle underlying, 
actuating, prompting the act, that give lasting and 
indestructible force to our character, both in the eyes of 
God and man; that make us agents for good or evil; 
that determine eventually whether our lives will have 
been a miserable failure or a well-rounded and decided 
success. 

Again, Loyola College has, during all these years, 
inculcated both by theory and practice that grand saving 
principle which was enunciated by the great Ignatius of 
Loyola at the feet of Pope Paul III., when asking for 
God's blessing upon his new Society; a principle which 
all his followers have ever since taught publicly and 
privately in their universities, their colleges, their hum- 
blest schools; which they have promulgated to the king 
and the peasant, the master and the servant, the rich and 
the poor, to all classes and conditions of men, and under 
all the circumstances of life; that principle which is the 
very life and soul, the bone and sinew of all society; 
namely, obedience in all things except sin; obedience, — 
blind, absolute, unvarying, unqualified, self-sacrificing 
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Gentlemen, has been the teaching of Loyola College 
during all these years; such has been the saving prin- 
ciple she has inculcated; such her noble and helpful 
mission. 

No one can deny, therefore, that Loyola has exercised 
and exerted a most potent and beneficial influence upon 
the intellectual and moral thought of this country, and 
that, consequently, she has been an honor and a credit 
to the City of Baltimore. To-night, through the worthy 
and respected members of her present Faculty, we con- 
gratulate Loyola College upon her past splendor and her 
successful achievements; we place at her feet our tribute 
of grateful appreciation, sincere love and deep loyalty, 
and we pledge ourselves to co-operate generously and 
cheerfully in all her efforts to continue her grand and 
noble mission in the cause of science and religion. Let 
me utter one word in conclusion — one that will find a 
responsive echo in every heart here to-night— God bless 
and prosper dear old Loyola College ! 

The second speaker, Dr. Ira Remsen, President of the 
Johns Hopkins University, responded to the toast "The 
American College." In the course of his address he 
made allusion to the early expeditions of the Jesuits 
along the St. Lawrence River, remarking that he had 
himself retraced the steps of those wonderful men, of 
whom we are justly proud, and to whom our country 
owes so much. The speaker then congratulated Loyola 
College on the work she had successfully accomplished 
during the first half-century of her existence, extending 
to her the hearty congratulations of the Johns Hopkins 
University. 



1 82 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Mr. Homer next introduced the Reverend Michael J. 
Byrnes, S.J., a student at the College during the fifties, 
who read the following poem: 



SALVE, MATER ALttA ! 

Thou cherished Mother of a goodly race, all hail ! 

Beam on us with thy lovelit eyes 

Who cheer thy sacred Dawn's uprise 
And bear a laurel wreath to bind thy golden veil. 

Not from his hands alone, who sings, the garland is, 

Less apt, alas! such gifts to twine: 

Of right and honor it is thine 
Amid thy sons' acclaim; some feeble echo, his. 

Yet were it unto him most coveted delight, 

Could he for her have worthier stood 

Who gave him life's supremest good, 
And rules as chosen Queen, a thousand hearts to-night. 

The years move on in rythmic curves, benignantly, 

And we grow old and pass, but thou 

Beginnest a new orbit now, 
In view of ampler cycles fairer and more free. 

For, even so the Past is mentor to the time 

That is, and of its radiance shares; 

Yet, giving all, itself repairs, 
Merged in the fuller rays of spaces more sublime. 

Thus Lore to higher Lore turns her impassioned face, 
Through stress and strain, to Truth's appeal, 
Baring her breast to proof of steel, 

Till Science yield the conquered world to her embrace. 

For thee, or glancing back to shadows dim and pale, 
Or onward to ascending light, 
The goal has flamed on heavenward height, 

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Not thine to yoke a deathless mind to mortal things, 

Too clear of glance the soul to bind, 

Too high of aim to have confined, 
Save where, beyond all height or depth, it folds its wings. 

Stand thou, fast girt, on Wisdom's bases firm and sure. 

Fair means align to final end, 

And Faith with Reason interblend, 
That heaven may earth enfold, within thy vision pure. 

Thou canst not part these unities that God has made; 

Thou must not, yea, and dost not dare 

His ordered course asunder tear, 
Lest, with the broken bond, thine aim and glory fade. 

Then, Mother, shalt thou bear men-children for thy need, 

By every noble passion fired, 

To every deed of love inspired, 
And strong of heart and limb, as fits a chosen seed. 

Doubt not to send them forth where mighty movements play; 

Their spirit has been ever thine, 

Their place, along the foremost line; 
As they have been of old, so let them be to-day, 

But sturdier, steadier, too; gifted with finer sense 

To meet the treasons of an hour 

That lauds its gods of wealth and power, 
And lovely Freedom shames, with riotous pretence. 

Hark, in the chastened air to sound of mystic bells, 

Hallowed and sweet from distant times! 

How mellowly they greet our chimes 
That, now, full-throated, fling abroad their magic spells! 

O tones memorial of the dear long ago, 

Vibrant with meanings but half guessed 

And scenes that Fancy loves the best, 
And lingers with, when life is at its second glow! 

No Prospero may ope the gates of pearl that lie 

Athwart the inviolable years; 

Yet, seen through mists of happy tears, 
Some image still may breathe and say: " 'Tis you and I." 



184 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Can you recall when first the mother of your soul, 

Parent ideal, clasped your hand, 

And led you to her Promised Land 
Wherein of milk and honey wondrous rivers roll? 

There, amid cloistered aisles and courts, where knowledge seems 

To muse with wide, enchanted eyes, 

The secret portals of the Wise 
She open drew, and showed whence flowed her living streams. 

There, at her knees, with bended head, we learned to trace 

The beauteous ways of Love Divine, 

And saw, in marvel and in sign 
Of the vast globe, the outward shining of His face. 

Then Guardian Faith walked hand in hand with work or play, 

And Art spread out her splendid page, 

And Health went bounding with our age, 
And Mirth made rainbow tints to flush the livelong day. 

The glamour of our youth, the peace, the friendships true, 

Our Prime that knew nor grief nor stain, — 

These never shall come back again, 
Though we should live a hundred years beneath the blue. 

Are ye all here, my comrades? Call the muster-roll! 

Ah, many a voice is mute this day, 

That cheered our vanguard in the fray 
And vanished, at the sodden trench, to the bugle's toll! 

And some on the uplands sleep, and some in the sunset glade. 

Old friends, old chums who've gone awhile, 

The trembling lips of the Mother smile 
As she weaves your chaplet green, under the cypress shade. 

What recks it when they fell, or where beneath the sky 

The clarion-call of duty came? 

As hers in love, so, one in fame, 
Sons of her hope or tears, while she lives, they never die. 

Mother, we give thee joy and thy regal hands we kiss! 

Mother of fair love unto me, 

Accept the song of thy Jubilee, 
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Lift up thy stainless brow and hold thy flag unfurled. 

By these shalt thou the nations free, 

Superb in faith and chivalry, 
Thou bride of Science true, in the noonday of the world. 

At the conclusion of the Jubilee Poem, the Hon. 
William J. O'Brien, EE.D., addressed the gathering on 
the subject "Conservative Education." He declared 
that a just and prudent conservatism in education is the 
only hope of that order of civilization which produced 
the great intellects of the past, which preserves genuine 
intellectual culture and refinement in the family and 
the State, which enlightens the citizen, and gives health 
and vigor to the conscience and soul of man. The 
speaker then congratulated the Society of Jesus that it 
is still, as ever, the advocate of a conservatism in educa- 
tion as prudent as it is liberal. 

Mr. Charles M. Kelly, Ph.D., responded to the toast 
"College Education." He spoke briefly, but his words 
were trenchant and full of thought. 

The last speaker of the evening was the Reverend 
John F. Quirk, S.J., President of L,oyola College, who 
responded to the toast "Loyola: The Home-Harvesting." 
His words were: 



LOYOLA: THE HOME-HARVESTING. 

If there is one thought uppermost in our minds on 
this occasion, or one sentiment ruling our hearts to the 
exclusion of all others, I think it is that thought and 
sentiment which is voiced in the little word of "Home- 
return." For to say that we are here united in a com- 



I 86 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

mon bond of fellowship would but poorly express the 
meaning of this gathering and goodly presence. This 
is no mere union arranged by friends and fellows even for 
a definite purpose, good and laudable though it be. This 
is essentially a family gathering of brethren, sons of a 
common mother, and on a family feast which has its 
precedent and sanction in Holy Writ and the tradition of 
God's chosen people. God Himself has bidden us 
together, since none other than He has given the com- 
mand of sanctifying the fiftieth year. These are His 
words: "Every man shall return to his possessions and 
every man shall go back to his former family, because it is 
the Jubilee and the fiftieth year;" so that we are hereby 
warrant of a supreme call on the part of God, who bids 
us as sons of Loyola to our mother's Jubilee. 

But remark the special character of the summons 
homeward. "Every man shall return to his possessions 
and go back to his former family." There seems to be a 
special import in these words as applied to us, sons of 
Loyola, inasmuch as our mother's possessions are for the 
most part spiritual, and her family is cemented together 
by the firm binding force of virtue joined with knowledge. 
We know that her possessions are the teachings of our 
youth, and that her family is naught else than the close 
union of her sons in the regulated order and harmony of 
their lives and the pursuit of the same heroic ideals. 
Hence for us the call to return to our possessions implies 
a harking back to the teaching of yore which marked the 
period of our growth and nursing at Loyola. Let me 
recall, then, without offending, the cardinal principles 
of our life as children of Loyola: 

That sovereign principle of obedience, that God must 
be obeyed rather than man; that man vested with God's 



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authority speaks for God; that the poor are God's special 
children, to whom we owe charity, if not justice. Again, 
that we have each of us a life within which takes prece- 
dence of the life of the body; that we cannot live this 
true life of the soul and move in easy touch and harmony 
with the world at large. We recall also the fact of life 
being a probation, that success waits on effort and toil; 
finally, that only he who has not trespassed these precepts 
can be said to possess his soul in peace. 

Yet these possessions are not the only things of home 
to which we return this evening. We must "go back to 
our former family" itself, and entering in, be stirred in 
soul to deep and holy affections. So let us open wide 
the doors of our household of Loyola in the past, and 
view for awhile the thronging forms of memory. There 
they are before us, our brethren of yore — some who 
taught us, some who ruled us, and who knew us better 
than we knew ourselves. Others pass before us, our fel- 
lows with whom we strove in the field of learning or of 
sports. Some have survived the wreck of years, and 
some have gone to their long, long home. But whether 
living or departed hence, they are with us for the nonce, 
they are here, either in the body or in the tarrying 
spirit. 

But these are sombre thoughts, and hardly fit to engage 
us longer. This is the day of our home-harvesting, when 
glad thoughts should occupy the mind and joyous 
impulse sweep the strings of our heart. 

The harvest home of older countries and the Thanks- 
giving Day of our national life are but the natural 
utterance of the human heart, giving thanks to God for 
the garnered fruits of the earth and the copious blessings 
of the year. Our Jubilee shares in this general character 



188 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

of thanksgiving, but goes beyond, in that the blessings it 
commemorates are all of moral worth — the fruits of the 
spiritual mind and soul. What we bring to our harvest- 
ing from the past, we each of us know . What we should 
bring, that we know, too. But, looking to the future, 
let us voice together this prospering pledge and senti- 
ment: 

"I,oyola: the home-harvesting! Strong truths well 
lived; pure hearts well fired with love of God and man, — 
such be the sheaves of her spiritual reaping!" 

The assembly then dispersed. 

Present at the banquet were: — 

Mr. Arthur V. Milholland, 
President of the Alumni Association. 

Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J., 

President of Loyola College. 

Ira Remsen, M.D., LL-D., 

President of the fohns Hopkins U?iiversity. 

Rev. John D. Boland, Rev. T. J. Foley, Glyndon 

Rev. Michael J. Byrnes, S.J. , Md., 

Rev. N. W. Caughey, Washing- Rev. Philip Finegan, S.J., 

ton, Rev. L. J. McNamara, 

Rev. E. B. Adams, Sykesville, Rev. John Ryan, S.J., 

Md., Rev. D. C. De Wolf, 

Rev. F. P. Doory, Elkridge, Md., Rev. F. X. Brady, S.J., 

Rev. W. R. Mullan, S.J., Boston, Rev. P. M. Manning, 

Mass., Rev. H. S. Nagengast. 

Messrs. Messrs. 

J. Austin Fink, Philip J. Heuisler, 

Francis T. Homer, Wm. J. O'Brien, 

Matthew S. Brenan, Bernard J. Weiss, 

John D. Patterson, Frank J. Murphy, 

Chas. M. Kelly, Ph.D., James H. Brady, Jr., 

Charles S. Woodruff, M.D., Joseph M. Brown, 

A. Leo Knott, George M. Brown, 



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Messrs. 



Messrs. 



Charles B. Tiernan, 

John B. Sisson, 

Charles O'Donovan, 

Frank S. Hambleton, 

Thomas A. Whelan, 

William George Weld, 

Hammond J. Dugan, 

Thomas W. Jenkins, 

Thomas F. Lowe, Washing- 
ton, D. C, 

John E. Hussey, 

J. E. Coad, Charlotte Hall, 
Maryland, 

Alfred J. Shriver, 

Mark O. Shriver, Jr., 

Edward F. Milholland, 

Charles C. Homer, Jr., 

Charles S. Grindall, 

Frederick H. Hack, 

William H. Gahan, 

James R. Wheeler, 

Charles B. Delaney, 

John H. Dinneen, 

L. D. Kearney, 

Edward P. McDevitt, 

Charles Gorman, 

E. T. Joyce, 

E. J. Donohue, 

W. J. O'Brien, Jr., 

J. D. Wheeler, 

H. H. Biedler, 

Stephen Crowe, 

B. H. Goldsmith, 
Alexander Hill, 
Charles J. Hill, 
J. P. McCarthy, 
W. P. Miller, 

C. M. Morfit, 

M. W. Ganzhorn, 

Edward M. 



William P. Brown, 
Charles J. Bouchet, 
Frank Carlin, 
Thomas J. Carroll, 
George M. Brady, 
Thomas E. Brady, 
William J. Carroll, 
Charles O'Connor, 
J. F. Dammann, Jr., 
Isaac S. George, 
Frank K. Boland, New York, 
Joseph A. Herzog, 
James F. Curry, 
Edward A. Griffith, 
Charles B. Gorman, 
William J. Gallery, 
J. Albert Chatard, 
Jerome H. Joyce, 
Joseph C. Judge, 
Joseph B. Jacobi, 
James P. Leahy, 
Francis X. Milholland, 
Michael A. Mulhn, 
Martin J. Mullin, Jr., 
George T. Mills, 
J. Bertram Norris, 
William T. Riley, 
Martin A. O'Neill, 
Thomas J. O'Donnell, 
Joseph J. Smith, 
William H. V. Smith, 
F. C. Rosensteel, 
Stephen Crowe, 
Frank P. Murphy, 
John A. Powers, 
Horace B. Browne, 
J. W. P. McNeal, 
James J. Carroll, 
H. F. Cassidy, 
Hammond. 



THE ACADEMIC EXERCISES. 



The formal Academic Exercises of the Jubilee were 
held in the College Hall on Wednesday evening, Novem- 
ber 26, at eight o'clock. Seated upon the stage were 
the College Faculty, and a distinguished company of 
friends and alumni. 

The Reverend President, the Rev. John F. Quirk, 
S.J., opened the proceedings: 



THE NOTES OF OUR TEACHING. 

The occasion of a Fiftieth Anniversary seems to 
demand, in the first place, a word of thanksgiving to the 
Giver of all good gifts. This meed of gratitude is rev- 
erently paid in the acknowledgment that it is the 
"Father of Lights" who has taught and inspired 
through professor and teacher during these fifty years. 
In due measure, also, we owe thanks to the liberal gov- 
rnment, from which, under God, we hold our charter; 
and to the generous patrons who have entrusted their 
sons and wards to our charge, and given us both moral 
and material support. 

The academic nature of this celebration of our Jubilee, 
however, conveys with it another duty: one of reminis- 
cence, carrying us back over the arrears of time, and of 

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inquiry into what these years have achieved. It is, 
therefore, in thorough keeping with the nature of this 
evening's exercises to resume and examine our teaching, 
to render some account of our stewardship in the matter 
of education, and to report aright of our borrowed talents. 

Any intelligent analysis of the work done in Loyola 
College demands an understanding of the motive of her 
education, and an appreciation of the belief that her 
motive is the true one. The idea of our education im- 
plies a commission to teach, given to man by the Savior 
Himself, and inseparable from the Apostolic commission 
to baptize and renew in Christ. A clear concept of the 
function of the Catholic College is an all-sufficient argu- 
ment and apology for the courses of her schools. The 
character of her teaching is determined by her duty to 
teach unto justification. Hence, the controlling factor 
in her education must always be religion. Being of this 
persuasion, the Catholic College feels herself a very 
integral portion of the teaching Church, and lays claim 
to the possession of certain notes, which are so many 
vouchers for the excellence of her training. 

Perhaps the most striking quality of the education 
imparted here is its unity of instruction. Study is pre- 
parative to study, course is complement to course, 
class and year follow each other with unfailing regu- 
larity; yet all is arranged with due reference to one com- 
plete and final result. We might specify by showing 
that, first of all, the memory receives attention, after- 
wards, the imagination, and finally, in due time, the 
reasoning powers are trained and expanded, while relig- 
ious conscience and instinct meet with sedulous cultiva- 
tion and care throughout. 

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been thought out and planned upon the basis of man's 
nature and needs. 

Believing that such a system must be constant and 
enduring, we are not lightly given to change, but cling 
fast to our rooted traditions. We may in consequence 
suffer the imputation of being old-fashioned and un- 
modern in our ways, but our appeal is not to Caesar, but 
the unchanging Judge of human nature, and to the sober 
thought and experience of mankind. Moreover, we 
would remind such critics that the fashion of this world 
soon passeth away. 

A second characteristic of the education of Loyola 
College has been the consistent place given to religion 
in the curriculum of studies. The teaching college must 
educate and produce gentlemen. Morality must be 
taught, as even the most determined opponents of 
religion in the schools must confess. But how teach 
morality apart from Christ and religion? Morality in 
itself is fine- spun theory without power to check the 
passions of man. It must derive its force from a higher 
law and principle, that of a Being who inspires awe in 
the offender and has power to reward the just. This 
Being is God and His Christ, who are brought home to 
us only by religion. It is this study of religion, accom- 
panied by its practical results, which sanctifies our 
education and gives it the mark of Holiness. 

A strong and human note in the Church of God, one, 
in fact, from which it derives its name, is its Catholicity; 
a note which renders it adaptable to all human needs 
and world-wide in the spread of its doctrines and influ- 
ences. Such a note of power do we claim for the educa 
tion of Loyola and the Jesuit College. And our conten- 
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and its methods enjoy such universal esteem and such 
broad repute as to merit the name of "Catholic." If 
witness were needed in support of this statement we 
could cite to our purpose the names of colleges girdling 
the known world. Is it wonderful, then, that we have 
strong faith in a system which has stood the test of cen- 
turies, and which by its success among many and dif- 
ferent peoples has approved itself to all the educational 
world? Yet we are blamed at times for our refusal to 
change radically this same system. Our position, how- 
ever, is plainly to be seen. We are in possession of a 
tried and efficient method of education. Therefore, while 
elsewhere studies are being added to and dropped from 
the college course, and contention obtains regarding the 
number of years required in preparation for the academic 
degree, we prefer to remain steadfast in our demands, 
biding the day of better knowledge and a sterner convic- 
tion of the necessity of change. 

Finally, I may ask you to recall with me another note 
of our teaching, namely, its Apostolic character. I do 
not think that there is much need to dilate upon this 
characteristic note. But if I may modestly place before 
you the meagre beginnings, the slender resources, the 
many privations and sacrifices made by Catholic educa- 
tors from the outset, and add to the picture the spirit of 
their zeal and their ardor in the cause, I think that the 
Apostolic nature of their task will be sufficiently evident 
to all. 

In drawing the parallel between the Church of Christ 
and our teaching function, I have spoken with all due 
regard and reverence for the vast distance which must 
always separate the infallible Church from any private 
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out doubt is striking, and certainly worthy of remark. 
The thoughts presented in this address have not in 
themselves the merit of novelty. On the contrary they 
are trite and old. Yet they serve to emphasize the con- 
servative nature of our education, and to call up before 
us its larger features. They remind us of the aims for 
which we strive, which are fourfold: first, a unifying 
course of studies in order to a unified and complete 
result ; secondly, a Christian and religious system to 
insure the product of a Christian and a gentleman ; 
again, a Catholic and conservative method which shall 
hold in view the importance and sacredness of human 
personality and character; finally, an education entailing 
labor and sacrifice as the best pledge and guarantee of the 
fruits to be obtained. Hence, on this occasion, Loyola 
fitly renews her faith in these aims and principles as the 
strongest factors in her educational practice and belief. 

When President Quirk had concluded his address, Mr. 
Eugene Saxton, of the class of 1904, read the following 
Jubilee Ode in the name of the absent alumni, who were 
able to be present at the exercises only in spirit. It was 
written by Mr. Isaac R. Baxley, A.B. ('68), of Santa 
Barbara, Cal.: 

JUBILEE ODE. 

Padres, 

After all the foreign years, 
The sun of a sad desert and the seas 
Misty with distance from the East and you, 
The weary tops of many lonesome hills, 
And rest, long rest by passionate deep plain, — 
After the wonder and the pain of these, 
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I had not thought, when in the stranger street, 

And the less strange, inquiring solitude 

Of some worn river, that did run to meet 

Its ancient end in old exalted seas, — 

I had not thought, bewildered with the peace 

Of such extreme existences as these, 

That the short sun of this, a happy mood, 

Should bring me back where once with you I stood. 

Padres, 
Alike some architectural thing, 
That rises from its solemn spot on earth, 
And stands immense, which shade and solace brings 
To the fierce patient of this fevered fray — 
Like to a hill, with echo-fashioned tone 
That is half Heaven's and half the sad Earth's own — 
I see the house ye cannot keep alone. 
I see the incense, like a summer's cloud, 
Float in the air, and so I see the Sun 
Ye honor, through the diaphanous shroud 
That's sweet with prayer, ever unchanging gleam — 
The Sun that is, the clouds that float and seem. 

Padres, 
Have you e'er thought with what, how fond a dream 
You pressed our early eyelids, and our lips endowed? 

Lo, like a wanderer, returning in the night, 

After the feet have traveled, and the eyes have stared 

At each slow coming beacon's endless sight, 

Oh, Padres, 

After these 
My heart goes back to you, and throbs in dumb delight! 
Have ye not beckoned with the hands I thought 
Were busy with the fashions of whatever else they wrought? 
Have ye not spoken with the lips I believed were lost, 
And pledged me in remembrance with coin of ancient cost? 
Which is the better, Padres, always t'have kept 
Mine eyes awake, returning consciousness 
Of old import on yours, and so 
Thought myself equal — or some day to know 
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And while the sunsets of a far-off sea 
Drew down my days to many a troubled rest, 
And the wan eyes of deep melancholy 
Saw the sun perish in an anxious West: 
While many a night, that had no answer clear, 
Heard still the unseen questions walking near; 
While still the stars passed by, and overhead 
Wished much, but helpless still their pathways sped; 

While I with these 
Kept the dark coast line of my chosen seas, — 

There in the saving East, 
With eyes that gathered all the glorious sun, 

Ye stood, and watched the least 
That your sweet movements should be played and done. 

Ah, well I know, because 'tis distant Fate 
Sent me where much is wanted, — know that ye 
Remain because the harvest still is late, 
And still ye see the sheaves stand on the lea: 
Something to shelter still, some arch to trace, 
That the blue sky may smile in entering, 
And quicken, where each holy fashioned face 
Of you, loved Padres, stands a-centering. 

Farewell! 

And you, to me unknown, 
Who inward pass the gates I also have undone, 

Believe me in this: — 
They will stand open through the mists of many tears, 
Whatever sun shall frame with life the pictures of your years; 
They will seem far away. (Oh, could they swing and clang, 
And drown the crash when other things too desperately rang!) 
Close not too quickly, travelers, the gates that only those 
Hold wide, who always wait for other hands to close- 
ts, Padres, press the opening out against all waiting woes! 
Padres, my Padres, will they hearken, and may I 
Chant out for you your psalm of love and sweet humanity? 
And will ye tremble when the words strike on your hearts of old, 
As I, I tremble when the words, roused from my heart, are told? 



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An address from the students of the College was next 
delivered by Mr. Joseph S. May, of the class of 1903. 
When the speaker had resumed his seat, Mr. Francis J. 
Dammann, A.B. (1900), read the Jubilee Poem of Fr. 
Byrnes, S.J., "Salve, Mater Alma," delivered by the 
author at the Alumni Banquet on the evening preceding. 
Mr. Dammann was succeeded by the Rev. William L. 
O'Hara, EE-D., President of Mt. St. Mary's College, 
Emmittsburg, Md., who brought the exercises to a close 
with the following address of congratulation: 



PRESIDENT O'HARA'S ADDRESS. 

To one accustomed to judge things according to the 
standards of Europe, which boasts of colleges centuries 
old, fifty years in the life of a college is a small matter; 
but to an American familiar with his country's history, 
a half-century of existence is deemed a sufficient reason 
for much congratulation. If this be true with regard to 
colleges in general, how much more true is it when a 
Catholic college celebrates its Golden Jubilee ? When 
we look back upon the past fifty years and behold the 
difficulties in the way— the small number of Catholics 
in the country; their comparative poverty and weakness, 
the double burden which the support of Catholic institu- 
tions has imposed upon them, the material advantages 
often to be gained from the sending of their children to 
other than Catholic schools — when we recall these and 
many other obstacles, we stand almost stupefied at the 
marvelous increase in the number, as well as the im- 
provement, of our Catholic institutions of learning. 



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The college which I have the honor to represent began 
its work almost a half a century before the event of 
which this Jubilee is the commemoration. Together 
with Georgetown College, its predecessor in the field 
and life-long friend, Mt. St. Mary's has witnessed the 
birth and development of perhaps more than a hundred 
Catholic colleges in these United States, and has rejoiced 
at their progress in the noble work of Christian educa- 
tion. It is fitting and proper that the "Old Mountain" 
should to-day greet and congratulate Loyola. Both 
institutions happen to be located in this beautiful State 
of Maryland, which is so rich in Catholic traditions; 
both have had the good fortune to enjoy for a quarter of 
a century the friendship and good will of His Eminence, 
our beloved Cardinal; both are engaged in the same 
work of Catholic education. Moreover, I might mention 
the fact that a member of the original Faculty of this 
college, Father Edmund I. Young, was a graduate of 
Mt. St. Mary's; that another "Mountaineer" who 
preached the sermon at Mt. St. Mary's on the occasion 
of its Golden Jubilee, in 1858, Father Alexander S. Hit- 
selberger, was connected for a time with Loyola, and 
that Father Edward Sourin, of blessed memory, who 
died within the walls of this college, after many years 
devoted to its service, was one of the earliest graduates 
and a most devoted friend of Mt. St. Mary's. 

But the chief and, perhaps, essential reason why Mt. 
St. Mary's should now offer to Loyola its congratulations 
is the fact that this college, after fifty years of noble 
effort, to-day stands so prosperous, so strong and so 
steadfastly true to the principles of its founders. 

Everybody who has given any attention to the ques- 
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there are two great systems of education which are in- 
evitably opposed to each other. One of these, which, 
for want of a better name, might be called the non- 
religious system, puts God aside and practically ignores 
Him. As a natural result of this crowding out of re- 
ligion, there has arisen among the present generation a 
spirit of materialism, which is permeating our whole 
social fabric — a blind and misleading guide, which mis- 
takes philanthropy for charity, disobedience for manli- 
ness and commercialism for patriotism. 

Notwithstanding the tremendous power of this system 
— a power which has been gained by the outlay of vast 
sums of money — it is not proving to be as satisfactory as 
its admirers might wish it to be ; in fact, in certain 
quarters there are some indications of disappointment at 
its results. I will not name the many non- Catholic 
ministers of religion and other thoughtful men in various 
pnrts of the country who, within the last year or two, 
have frankly expressed their dissatisfaction with the 
moral aspect of our present educational system. Neither 
will I repeat the words of the recently retired Chinese 
Minister, uttered by him last spring, in Philadelphia, 
when he compared the pagan Chinese religious system 
of education with the American non-religious system, 
which latter, he intimated, might prove a menace to the 
stability of our nation. It is worthy of note also that 
only recently there appeared in the daily press the com- 
plaint of the Indian Agent of Oklahoma, in which he 
declared that, since the establishment in that Territory 
of the public schools for Indian children, the latter have 
become so degraded that vice and crime are rampant 
among them. 

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200 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

strength and confidence which arise from the test of 
ages stands the Catholic system of education — a system 
which combines religious, or moral, with the mental 
training of youth. This system recognizes God as the 
beginning and end of all things; it teaches the child 
that he comes from God, that he has an immortal soul 
and is destined to a life hereafter ; it moreover incul- 
cates all those other great lessons of morality which 
flow from these fundamental truths. While not ignoring 
the natural virtues, nor belittling the usefulness of this 
world's goods and the importance of education as means 
to an end, this system holds that there are better things 
than physical strength or learning or wealth or worldly 
power, that fine clothing and politeness are not substi- 
tutes for cleanness of heart; that not personal ambition, 
but self-sacrifice; not boasting, but courage; not the 
amassing of wealth, but respect for the rights of others, 
are the marks of the true man and the patriot. These, 
in brief, are the principles underlying the entire system 
of Catholic education. Whether in the parochial school 
or the academy, in the college or the university, the 
teaching of Christian morality is never lost sight of, but 
ever goes hand in hand with the imparting of the various 
branches of secular knowledge. 

Such, during the past fifty years, has been the mis- 
sion of L,oyola College. True to the doctrines of the 
Divine Founder of Christianity and of our Holy 
Mother the Church; faithful to the traditions of the 
Society of Jesus, in spite of the almost countless diffi- 
culties that have tried every Catholic College in the 
United States, Toyola has grown and developed to such 
an extent that the day of its Jubilee finds it deservedly 
one of the glories of this great city of Baltimore. 



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Reverend Father Rector, unworthy and incapable as 
I am of expressing in fitting terms the sentiments 
proper to such an occasion, yet I experience a peculiar 
pleasure in conveying to yourself and the other mem- 
bers of the Faculty of Loyola College the greetings and 
felicitations of Mt. St. Mary's College on this day of 
your Golden Jubilee. We congratulate you on the 
great material development of the College during the 
past fifty years, and its bright prospects for the future. 
We congratulate you on the confidence and increasing 
appreciation and encouragement which the noble work 
of your predecessors and yourselves has gained for the 
College among the Catholics of Baltimore. But as 
men possessing the true idea of what education is and 
means, as men having at heart the best interests of God 
and our country, as men alive to the dangers of our 
times, we congratulate you that Loyola College, still 
adhering to the high ideals which have always charac- 
terized the sons of St. Ignatius, to-day firmly and con- 
sistently stands for what is true and good and safe in 
education. 

We pray and hope that Loyola may continue to de- 
velop and prosper; that the number of its students may 
ever increase, and the sphere of its influence may ever 
grow larger; and that the coming years may find Loy- 
ola's sons, as in the past, following every noble profes- 
sion in this city and throughout the land, faithful to the 
the teachings of their Alma Mater, doing good to their 
fellow-men both by word and example, true Catholics 
and true citizens of our glorious country. 



202 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES. 

During the course of the evening's exercises, Hon- 
orary Degrees were conferred upon the following gen- 
tlemen: — 

The degree of Doctor of Daws, honoris causa, was 
conferred upon 

Hon. William J. O'Brien, Judge of the Orphans' 
Court. 

Hon. Charles W. Heuisler, Judge of the Juvenile 
Court. 

The degree of Doctor of Detters, honoris causa, was 
conferred upon 

Mr. Isaac R. Baxley, A.B. ('68), of Santa Barbara, 
California. 

The degree of Master of Arts, honoris causa, was con- 
ferred upon 

Rev. Francis P. Doory, of St. Augustine's Church, 
Elkridge Landing, Md. 

Dr. Thomas D- Shearer. 

Dr. Charles S. Woodruff. 

Mr. William Keene Naulty. 

Mr. Matthew S. Brenan. 



INVITED GUESTS. 

In addition to the Faculty and members of the Alnmni, 
the following guests were present upon the stage during 
the proceedings: 



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Dr. Ira Remsen, President of the Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Edward H. Griffin, Dean of the Johns Hopkins University. 

Rev. William L. O'Hara, LL.D., President of Mount St. Mary's 
College, Emmitsburg, Md. 

Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., President of the Holy Cross 
College, Washington, D. C. 

Rev. William P. Brett, S.J., formerly President of Loyola 
College, now President of Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md. 

Rev. John Abel Morgan, S.J., formerly President of Loyola 
College, now of Gonzaga College, Washington, D. C. 

Rev. W. G. Read Mullan, S.J., President of Boston College. 

Rev. David W. Hearn, S.J., President of St. Francis Xavier's 
College, New York. 

Mr. Francis A. Soper, President of the Baltimore City College. 

Dr. Philip A. Uhler, Provost and Librarian of the Peabody 
Institute. 

Rev. Father Anselm, O.S.B., Rector of the Church of the 
Fourteen Holy Martyrs, Baltimore. 

Rev. A. J. Elder Mullan, S.J., Woodstock College. 

Rev. P. J. Dooley, S.J., St. Peter's College, Jersey City, N. J. 

Rev. Francis P. Powers, S.J., St. Francis Xavier's College, 
New York. 

Rev. Martin J. Hollohan, S.J., St. John's College, Fordham, 
New York. 

Rev. Francis M. Connell, S.J., St. Francis Xavier's College, 
New York. 

Rev. John J. Fleming, S.J., Gonzaga College, Washington, 
D. C. 

Rev. Michael A. Purtell, S.J., Prince George's County. 

Rev. John Brady, Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md. 

Mr. Samuel H. Ranck, of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. 



SOLErtN PONTIFICAL MASS. 



On the morning of Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, 
November 27, at ten o'clock, a Solemn Pontifical Mass 
of Thanksgiving was celebrated in the Church of St. 
Ignatius, adjoining the College, at the corner of Calvert 
and Madison streets. The officiating ministers at the 
ceremony were: Celebrant, His Eminence Cardinal 
Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore; archpriest, Rev. 
Jerome Daugherty, S.J., President of Georgetown Uni- 
versity; deacon, Rev. W. G. Read Mullan, S.J., Pres- 
ident of Boston College; sub-deacon, Rev. David W. 
Hearn, S.J., President of St. Francis Xavier's College, 
New York City; deacons of honor, Rev. John D. 
Boland, Rector of St. Vincent's Church, Baltimore, and 
Rev. W. S. Caughey, Rector of St. Stephen's Church, 
Washington. The master of ceremonies on the occa- 
sion was Rev. Thomas J. Foley, of the Sacred Heart 
Church, Glyndon, Md., assisted by Mr. Henry W. 
McLoughlin, S.J. 

The procession started from the College entrance on 
Monument street, and passed along Calvert street to the 
entrance of the church, extending in line the full 
length of the block. It was an imposing spectacle, 
composed of more than eighty clergymen clothed in 
cassock and surplice, together with one hundred and 
fifty students arrayed in cap and gown. In the interior 
of the church the scene was still more impressive. The 

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main altar was artistically decorated with a profusion of 
palms and golden chrysanthemums, and brilliantly illu- 
minated with candles and electric lights. Suspended 
from the ceiling of the sanctuary were five magnificent 
chandeliers, which supported graceful streamers of 
laurel and evergreen, from which were pendent numer- 
ous electric bulbs. An electric arch extended across 
the centre aisle. Close to the sanctuary rail were seated 
the altar boys, forty-five in number, clothed in cassocks 
of white plush, secured at the waist with sashes of 
scarlet satin; and the precision and grace with which they 
performed their part of the elaborate ceremonies was 
not the least impressive feature of the splendid function. 
The music, which was of a high order of excellence, was 
rendered by seventy voices with organ, piano and string 
orchestral accompaniment, under the direction of Mr. 
A. F. Barley, assisted by Miss Helen M. L,inhard as 
organist. At the conclusion of the Mass the Jubilee 
sermon was delivered by Rev. John A. Conway, S.J., 
Vice-President of Georgetown University. The preacher 
chose for his subject "Christian Education," and his 
eloquent discourse, which occupied more than an hour 
in its delivery, was pronounced, by the judgment of all 
who had the pleasure of hearing it, a fitting close to 
the magnificent service that preceded. 



FATHER CONWAY'S SERMON. 

' ' This is life everlasting: that they may know Thee, the 
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." — 
John xvii. 3. 

In these days, when so many of the nations have 
turned away from God, it seems like a holy inspiration 



206 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

that moves one of the youngest and healthiest and 
strongest to turn to God annually to thank Him for the 
blessings of the past year and to implore His protection 
for the future. In all our land to-day there is an official 
acknowledgment that God is the ruler of nations, and 
that all the strength and prosperity and happiness of a 
country come from Him. ' ' Unless the L,ord build the 
house, they labor in vain that build it." 

But you are here to-day for a special reason, not in 
obedience to the President's proclamation, but in com- 
pliance with the lord's ordinance — " Thou shalt sanc- 
tify the fiftieth year. ' ' 

Your thanksgiving is not merely for the blessings of a 
year : it goes back two generations, and no doubt some 
amongst you have seen the little mustard-seed grow 
into the great tree typifying the Kingdom of God upon 
earth. Fifty years of labor for the glory of God, and 
with God's blessing upon it! That is the idea which 
you commemorate, for which you pour out grateful 
hearts to-day in presence of the altar. All has been 
added which could give significance and magnificence to 
that outpouring of thankfulness; joyous hymns of 
thanksgiving rise from earth to heaven; the sweet per- 
fume of incense floods the sanctuary; priests in gorgeous 
vestments minister at the altar; and a Prince of the 
Church, the worthy occupant of the oldest See in the 
United States, offers up the adorable Mass of thanks- 
giving. Surely it is a great event that is being com- 
memorated here to-day. Yes, indeed, it is a great event 
— the greatest in the world, after the direct means of 
sanctification instituted by Christ for the spiritual wel- 
fare of man. It is the cause of Catholic education that 
we are to-day celebrating: the memory of fifty years 
spent in solving the problem that has occupied men's 



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minds for centuries; for which we believe the only key 
is the training which this institution has been giving for 
half a century. 

Education is the great cry of our age; our periodicals 
and magazines are filled with it; it is heard in our 
lecture-halls; it occupies the constant attention of our 
legislators; it holds a prominent place in our political 
platforms; it is the rallying cry in our conventions, 
municipal, State, and Federal; it is the key with which 
we hope to solve all the problems in our new possessions; 
it is the panacea, the remedy, for all moral evil, social 
and individual. And so it is: education is the one 
thing, the only thing, that will fit man for his high des- 
tiny. Gladly then do I repeat the sentiment of the age: 
"Let knowledge grow from more to more;" gladly do 
I admit that a fuller knowledge will give us a more per- 
fect manhood and a more perfect womanhood. Educa- 
tion is the remedy against ignorance, and bigotry, and 
mental narrowness, and perverse evil doing. 

But it would be a great mistake to imagine that 
education is the peculiar heritage of this age; the desire 
for it is coeval with the history of man. "Let knowl- 
edge grow from more to more" is not merely the senti- 
ment of a modern poet; it is the aspiration of the human 
heart. It is written on the bricks of the Babylonians, 
in the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, in the bark 
literature of the Aztec Indians. Knowledge kept pace 
with the spreading culture of Greece, in a literature, 
after inspiration, the most sublime and the most perfect 
in form that the world has ever seen; it followed the 
conquering banners of Rome until the stately learning 
of Rome was the learning of the world. And our own 
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208 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

the educators of the chosen people of God ? The great 
Law-Giver lays down rules of conduct and of action 
which to-day are principles of moral well-doing; the 
inspired singers raised up men from earth to heaven; 
the Prophets foretold the glorious coming of Him who 
was to be the Teacher of the Nations. Education is no 
modern discovery indeed; it is at least as old as Chris- 
tianity; it is implied in the very title of those men who 
were to be the columns and foundations of truth, for they 
were called Apostles, that is, men sent forth to teach. 
"Go, teach all nations," was the mission entrusted to 
them. They were not sent forth as wonder-workers, 
though that power was given to them ; they were not 
sent forth to cure bodily infirmities, though the shadow 
of Peter did give health to the sick, and the prayer of 
Paul did raise the dead to life; they were not sent forth 
for any temporal advantage which they would bring to 
them who should listen to their words; their mission was 
to teach, — "Go and teach," — and thus Christianity itselt 
is founded on the principle of education. 

In obedience to that command, the Apostles went 
forth to teach, and "Their sound went over all the earth, 
and their words unto the ends of the whole world." 
Thus did the higher education begin amongst men, that 
education which was to reveal all the infinite depths of 
God's mercy and love, and how salvation has come 
through Jesus Christ. These words of Christ were the 
credentials of the Apostles. '"Go, teach all nations," 
was the command of Him who had authority over the 
minds and hearts of men. He promised furthermore 
that He, Himself, would be with them and their suc- 
cessors as their guide in teaching until the end of time. 
"Behold, I am with yon all days, even to the consum- 



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mation of the world." Hence no body of men, not 
claiming for itself infallibility, can be the successors of 
those men sent forth by Christ to teach all truth till the 
consummation of the world. 

And that higher education spread; higher than any 
Babylonian sage, or Egyptian seer, or Greek philosopher, 
or Roman statesman had ever dreamed of; higher even 
than the inspired writers of the Old Testament had ever 
known; for they had seen darkly only, as in a glass: 
they had witnessed the breaking dawn, but not the 
glorious sunburst. That higher education could be 
expressed in the single phrase, "Eternal life through 
Jesus Christ, our L,ord." It was this which was taught 
to "Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and inhabitants 
of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Egypt, and the 
parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, 
Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians," when 
on the first Pentecost Sunday they all heard in their own 
tongue the Apostles preaching "the wonderful works of 
God." It was this truth which was taught to the 
despised Jews in Jerusalem and in the surrounding 
country, and in distant lands, and to the wisest of the 
Greeks in their own Areopagus; it penetrated into the 
palace of the Caesars, into the splendid homes of Roman 
nobles, and into the wretched hovels of Roman slaves. 
In busy city, and in lonely hamlet, on vast continent, 
and on narrow islands of the sea, men were startled by 
the new teaching, so much at variance with all that 
philosophers had taught and men had practised for cen- 
turies. Peter was the teacher of the Jews; and Paul, 
borne on by an irresistible zeal, traversed the earth 
bringing the glad tidings to the Gentiles, earning for 
himself the title of "Teacher of the Nations." The 



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other ten, scattered over the world, bore witness with 
their lives, and they fertilized with their blood the soil 
into which the new teaching struck its roots deep and 
strong. Others came, their successors, with the self- 
same mission and the self-same promise that He would 
be with them; and after three centuries, with all the 
power, and malice, and cruel ingenuity of kings and em- 
perors against it, it prevailed and lived and ruled over 
the fast-fading greatness of the world-wide empire; and 
it has prevailed and lived and ruled ever since in all 
true ideas of education. 

Eternal life! That was the lesson man had to learn, 
the knowledge he should acquire, and the only thing 
worth knowing; and to this day it holds the supreme 
place in all true education; it is the knowledge that man 
is bound to learn, the only thing worth knowing. "This 
is life everlasting: that they may know Thee, the only 
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." So 
taught the Apostles and they had no other teaching to 
offer. The most eloquent of them all, the man who is 
called the "Teacher of Nations," who taught the 
Romans and Ephesians, Galatians and Philippians, Cap- 
padocians and Hebrews themselves, whose zeal was 
limited by the world, whose fiery eloquence was inspired 
by the Spirit of God, he sums up all his teaching in the 
simple sentence, "We preach Jesus Christ, and Him 
crucified." That was the Apostolic idea of the higher 
education, of the highest education. The Apostles 
passed away, and the great Roman Empire passed away. 
The Apostles had their successors, but the great Roman 
Empire had no successor; it went the way of all flesh. 
Its last days were made glorious by the brilliancy of 
those men who succeeded to the Apostles in the work of 



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teaching, and of saving that higher education from the 
ruin which fell upon the world. High above the din of 
the falling Empire are heard, in the West the eloquent 
voices of the impetuous Tertullian, of the profound 
Augustine, of the gentle Ambrose, and of the learned 
Jerome; whilst in the East, the golden flow of Chry- 
sostom, the learned researches of Origen, the pious 
exhortations of Basil and of Gregory, all proclaim the 
self-same truth, that it is eternal life to know the one 
trUe God, and Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ. 

The great Empire fell, and its civilization passed 
away forever, leaving only a magnificent memory behind; 
and there is probably no sadder page in history than the 
record of that fall. From East and Northeast savage 
men poured down in vast multitudes, trampling down 
with iron hoof and armed heel the thousand-year civiliza- 
tion of Rome and the culture of Greece. Eike wolves 
they rushed forth to pillage and destroy; their dense 
columns, like locusts, extending from North to South, 
and advancing irresistibly towards the West, left deserts 
and desolation behind; whilst the face of the sun was 
obscured by the smoke and ruin that marked their on- 
ward, irresistible progress. The great Empire made 
desperate efforts to drive back these savage men to their 
mountain fastnesses or to their boundless plains; but it 
might as well have tried to stem the tide or to stay the 
the hand of time; on, on they rushed, countless hordes, 
thousands falling by the wayside, but tens of thousands 
ready for the vacant places. Goths and Visigoths, 
Huns and Vandals, they pillaged and they plundered, 
and they outraged all the laws of God and man. And 
they conquered; these rude men conquered over the 
wealth and power and refinement of Rome. Sanctuaries 



212 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

were overthrown, palaces turned into stables, temples 
razed to the ground. The Barbarians had come, and 
they had come to stay; and to a thousand years and 
more of conquest and refinement succeeded the ages 
which men, with some show of reason, call Dark. The 
old civilization passed away, the old races were extin- 
guished, and in their place were these fierce tribes from 
forest and mountain and jungle and prairie, wild with 
lust and avarice and the thirst for power, whose delight 
it was to revel in deeds of cruelty and to gloat over the 
flow of blood. 

The higher education brought by the Apostles, ex- 
plained and defined so luminously by the Fathers, 
seemed to have perished from the earth forever; a failure 
seemed to have been the mission of the Apostles; and 
Augustine and Jerome and Chrysostom and Gregory and 
Ambrose and Basil seemed to have taught in vain. But 
there could be no failure for her who had faced the 
great Roman Empire in the zenith of its glory; for her 
endowed with perennial life, who had been commis- 
sioned, and consequently empowered, by God Himself 
to teach all truth until the end of time. The work 
already done for the Romans was to begin anew; and 
those savage tribes contending with each other for the 
mastery were to be humanized and civilized, and 
brought to the knowledge of the one, only true God, as 
the Romans had been brought to that knowledge; and 
thus to them also the higher education would come. 
Men are wont to speak contemptuously of those cen- 
turies as the Dark Ages, when the world was buried in 
ignorance and superstition and barbarism. And there 
is, doubtless, some truth in this. But how could it be 
otherwise? These men from hill and plain and valley 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 213 

were without culture or refinement; they were untutored 
sons of nature, steeped in paganism and brutality. Why 
will not men rather consider the tremendous power that 
awaited them on the ruins of Rome's greatness — which 
threw leaven into that seething, boiling mass, and 
waited through the centuries of ferment, until the whole 
mass was leavened, and thence came forth a civilization 
greater and more perfect than that of ancient Greece 
and Rome? We are the descendants of those fierce men: 
our civilization of to-day is the development, the evolu- 
tion, of that civilization which Goths and Huns and 
Vandals, Northman, Saxon, Dane, and Celt received 
from the Catholic Church; these men had come forth to 
destroy, and only too well had they accomplished their 
mission. But they were themselves, in turn, brought 
under the sweet yoke of Christ; and to them, also, the 
higher education had come. No man can dwell upon 
that history and consider how the Church tamed and 
formed and moulded those fierce spirits without real- 
izing that her power is, indeed, divine, and that, 
faithful to His promise, Christ was with her in the work 
of teaching the nations. 

Patiently the Church waited; she had time to wait, 
for she was endowed with immortal life. The work of 
teaching went on, and out of that darkness, forth from 
the Dark Ages, came the Ages of Faith, when all men 
worshipped before the same altar and made profession of 
the same creed, acknowledging the one true God and 
Him whom He did send. Oh! Well had the Church 
accomplished her mission. You see it in the splendid 
churches then erected by her on the ruins of Roman 
temples, which are still the wonders of the world; you 
see it in the shrines and sanctuaries set apart by her for 



214 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

the glory of God; you hear it in the exultant cry of the 
Crusader, "God wills it," as he went forth to battle 
and to die for his Master's tomb; you can understand it 
from the pious customs then instituted, as the Truce of 
God, and Sanctuary; you hear it once again (and how 
sweetly it sounds!) in the tones of the Angelus floating 
out on the evening air, calling upon men to remember 
that the "Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us." 
Those were glorious times indeed; that was a divine 
victory. Men were ready now for higher things, and 
the Church set about teaching every branch of learning, 
that her children might have a fuller and deeper knowl- 
edge of salvation, the one thing worth knowing. She 
founded the great universities wherein the thirst for that 
higher knowledge could be satisfied. She established 
the world-renowned University of Paris, with its thou- 
sands of scholars and its teachers famous throughout 
all time. Within its hallowed walls the great Scotus 
taught, and one greater than he, Thomas from Aquino; 
Peter the Lombard, and Alexander the Englishman; 
Albert, whom men justly call Great, and the sainted 
Bonaventure; and hundreds of others who bear titles 
distinctive of their fame; — all these taught, or were 
taught in that home of universal science. Bologna, 
Pavia, Padua, Salamanca, Coimbra, Alcala, Upsala, 
Friburg, not to mention the numerous schools clustering 
about the center of Catholic unity, — all of these were 
founded by the Church; thus did she carry out her 
mission of teaching. And if you cross over the narrow 
sea, and wander through the classic cloisters of Oxford 
and of Cambridge, or, if traveling farther North you visit 
quaint St. Andrew's or bustling Glasgow, you will see, 
in carved stall and in sculptured stone, the emblems of a 



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Faith no longer ruling there, which tell of the authority 
which founded these seats of learning, the Catholic 
Church, through her chief Bishop, who sat upon the 
Throne of the Fisherman. 

The mere mention of these names is a sufficient refu- 
tation of the calumny that the Catholic Church is 
opposed to education: she founded them, she fostered 
them, and it was the holiest and most learned of her 
sons, yes, I may add, and daughters also, that taught in 
them; their learning is her most precious treasure; with 
it she explains her truths and defends her dogmas; it is 
the heritage which she has garnered through the ages 
from her children as the instrument of sanctification and 
of the higher education amongst men 

Thus did the Church accomplish her mission success- 
fully and gloriously. She taught with authority; she 
was then, as now, the only power on earth that claimed 
to teach with the authority of God. And men began to 
chafe and fret under the yoke of that authority, as men 
will ever chafe and fret under a liberty that is not license. 
The great revolution of the 16th century came, when 
some of the nations turned away from her who had been 
the source and centre of light and learning through the 
ages of formation and fulfilment. Needless to mention 
here the apostate friar who rebelled against the authority 
he had pledged himself to defend, and violated the vows 
he had solemnly sworn to keep; needless to recount the 
history of the sensual king who severed a nation from 
the faith of Rome because the Bishop of Rome refused to 
sever the bonds of a legitimate marriage; needless to tell 
of the nations that broke away from the Church which 
had brought them civilization and refinement and the 
knowledge of the one true God. The old truths were 



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assailed, new theories were invented, and principles 
opposed to her authority and teaching were instilled into 
the minds of men. Once again the Church was called 
upon to face error: not now the errors of a cultured 
paganism or of an ignorant barbarism, but the errors of 
her own wayward children, whom she had trained and 
educated only that they should turn against her. But 
God was with her still, in that crisis, as ever in the hour 
of need, and He raised up holy men and women for the 
defence of His Church and for the success of her mission. 
Amongst these was Ignatius of L,oyola, whose name and 
fame are fittingly commemorated in to-day's Thanksgiv- 
ing services. Ignatius was one of the instruments 
chosen by God, and sent by Him to refute error, to 
redeem lands lost to the Faith, and to bring new realms 
to the knowledge of the one true God. In that almost 
universal rebellion, it was no mere province, no narrow 
kingdom that rose up before the renewed spirit of 
Ignatius: it was the world. It was conquest he sought 
for still: not even grace could subdue the military spirit 
within him; it was that conquest upon which he had 
meditated so long and deeply in the cave of Manresa, — 
the bringing of all men under the one standard of Christ, 
the establishment of the Kingdom of God upon earth. 

No form of religious activity which could serve to the 
greater glory of God was alien to the mind and designs 
of Ignatius. His sons were to be "all things to all 
men:" they were to be the pioneers of forests, the 
explorers of rivers, dwellers in the huts of savages and 
counsellors at the courts of kings; they were to give mis- 
sions in the West and to reveal the secrets of science to 
wondering Orientals. "Go, teach," meant for Ignatius 
everything that could be taught for the glory of God. 



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Yet his supreme aim, because the supreme need, was 
the education of youth. The words of Christ had a new 
force and a new significance : universal error was to be 
met with universal knowledge. It was Christ, indeed, 
who was to be taught, the self-same Christ whom Paul 
had preached centuries before, but the spirit of the times 
required some modifications in the manner of that 
teaching. All that literature had accomplished from 
the beginning, all that science had invented, all that 
nature had to reveal, was to be illuminated by the cen- 
tral light, which was the L,ight of the World, and glori- 
fied in the splendor reflected from the glorified Saviour of 
mankind. "Go and teach!" In obedience to that com- 
mand colleges were founded, schools were opened, uni- 
versities were established; and for more than two cen- 
turies the education of the Catholic youth of Europe 
was in the hands of the disciples of Iyoyola; and it is an 
historical fact that the new ideas failed to prosper, with- 
ered away and died in those lands where their schools 
prevailed. No class was to be excluded from their 
teaching: they were to teach catechism to the rude 
and the ignorant, grammar and the arts to youth, and 
science in all its branches to those who sought for fuller 
knowledge. For nearly four centuries the very name of 
Jesuit has been synonymous with Catholic education; 
volumes have been written on the pedagogy of the 
Jesuits, on L,oyola and his teaching; but it can all be 
summed up in the sentence, " Kternal life through Christ 
our Iyord;" and in the motto which Ignatius held up as 
the sole ideal — Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. — is it not evi- 
dent, to the Christian, at least, that this should be the 
end of all education? 

God is the end of man. Even the pagan philosophers 



218 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

of old were able to grasp this truth. It is the funda- 
mental truth of Christianity, the last reason for all we 
believe and all we do. Iyife eternal! Should not this 
be kept constantly before the minds of those who are 
being trained into a perfect Christian manhood? Can 
any system of education be, I do not say perfect, but 
can it be truly called education, a human training, which 
ignores the First Cause and the Last End of all? Science 
is the knowledge of things through their causes: can 
there be any true science where the First Cause is 
excluded from the sphere of investigation and adoration? 
Nor is it sufficient that God should hold the first place 
in education : He should be the very atmosphere of the 
schoolroom; for He is as air to the soul, since "in Him 
we live and move and have our being." God should 
permeate every branch of education. His voice should 
be heard, not merely in the Psalms of David and the 
Rhapsodies of the Prophets, but in all the literature of 
the world; His providence should be seen in all the 
changes of men and things about us; His power in the 
forces of nature; His wisdom in the order of the universe; 
His eternity in the ages that are gone; and above all, 
His infinite love in the making of man to His own image 
and likeness, and in the salvation brought to the world 
through Jesus Christ. There can be no greater disaster 
to a State than a Godless education. It strikes at the 
very roots of human life. It may produce an abhorrent 
refinement, such as that of ancient Greece and Rome; 
but it is more likely to bring the nations back to a bar- 
barism like to that which overran Europe at the close of 
the fifth century. "This is life everlasting: that they 
may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 
whom Thou hast sent." 



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So taught the sons of Loyola; and that doctrine was 
taught by them in their first attempt at collegiate teach- 
ing in the United States in the modest schoolrooms of 
Bohemia Manor. It was there that he who was to be 
the patriarch of the American Church in the United 
States, John Carroll, the fearless and the patriot, first 
imbibed the rudiments of that science for which in after 
years he was to be conspicuous. From him, and from 
his work, came the College which to-day wears her 
golden crown of jubilee in this fair city of the Chesa- 
peake. It is no little glory to you that a man worthy 
of the See which John Carroll, the Jesuit, founded and 
made illustrious, should preside here to-day in the royal 
purple of martyrs and of kings, the worthy successor of 
the great man who was the foundation-stone of our 
American hierarchy. Archbishop Carroll, mindful of 
his own training, began his episcopate almost with the 
founding of a college, the oldest Catholic college in our 
territory to-day — Georgetown — from which all the other 
Jesuit schools in these States, from Maine to Virginia, 
have gone forth as from a fruitful mother. Loyola is a 
worthy daughter of that time-honored seat of learning, 
and for fifty years she has carried out the designs of 
Ignatius and fulfilled the wishes of John Carroll. Can 
anyone recall the names of the men of renown who have 
guided the destinies of this institution during the past 
fifty years, without confessing that it has been faithful 
to its great mission? Not to hurt the modesty of the 
living, I may mention the worthy dead, who died in the 
Lord: the genial Early, well chosen to found a Jesuit 
college here, generous, hospitable, large-minded, like 
the city itself; William Francis Clarke, whose soul- 
stirring sermons and spotless integrity are still well re- 



220 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

membered by you; the accomplished O'Callaghan, and 
the polished Ciampi, scion of the nobility of Rome; 
still green in your memories, still fresh in the bosom of 
God, are the gentle McGurk and the zealous Smith, 
who labored amongst you well and long, as the years 
of Jesuit Rectors are numbered. That is a line of 
which any institution might well feel proud; these were 
men whose sole aim in life was to bring men to the 
knowledge of the one true God. There is no blot on 
that clean page, no stain on that glorious escutcheon. 
And there comes to me the memory of others who have 
labored here, who live, doubtless, in the holy recollec- 
tion of some amongst you still: Charles King, whose 
sweetness of voice often sounded within these walls as the 
echo of the songs of Paradise; the angelic Sourin, who 
fled from the highest honors to devote himself to the 
poor and the despised and those who were condemned 
by men; the apostolic Miller, well named Peter, in 
honor of Claver, his patron, whose name is still a 
household word with our colored people, whose monu- 
ment is the Church of St. Francis Xavier, only a few 
paces away; and the mighty O'Connor, one of the 
glories of the American hierarchy, who laid down the 
crozier which he had wielded so faithfully, and the 
mitre which he had worn so honorably, at the feet 
of Ignatius, under whose banner — Ad Majorem Dei 
Gloriam — it had long been his ambition to enroll 
himself. 

Fifty years are accomplished, and in compliance with 
the ordinance of the Lord' you have celebrated your 
Jubilee. The setting sun will go down on an event, on 
a page of human history, and with the darkness of night 
that event will be over. But all the suns that will ever 



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set, will never obscure the idea behind this celebration, 
its significance — Christian education. It may be that 
for ages the sun will yet roll on; and it will shine down 
upon men teaching until the end of time. The founding 
of a Catholic college! It is not brick and mortar, hand- 
some schoolrooms and stately halls; no, not even learned 
professors and holy men that we commemorate to-day. 
It goes farther back than this — to the time when John 
Carroll recognized that a Catholic school was necessary 
for the welfare of his diocese, which was the United 
States; to the time when Ignatius of Loyola saw that 
Catholic education was necessary for the welfare of 
Christendom; and farther back still, to that bright sum- 
mer day when Christ, the Eternal God, surrounded by 
His chosen Twelve, declared that it was necessary for 
the welfare of the world, and that it would never fail — 
"Go, teach all nations." Nay, it seems to me to go 
farther back still, to a time, if it can be called time, 
when the Adorable Trinity — Three in One — spoke the 
eventful words, " Let us make man to our own image 
and likeness." That image, streaming forth from the 
light of the face of God, is impressed upon the inert 
clay, but it is to be worked and bathed, and toned and 
fixed, with diligence and accuracy, until the perfect 
picture is reproduced in will, memory and understand- 
ing. That is the meaning of Catholic education: it is 
the echo of God's voice in Paradise: ' Let us make man 
to God's image and likeness.' That has been the labor 
of this institution for the past fifty years; this is the 
meaning of to-day's celebration. With God's help it 
will go on; and after another fifty years other men will 
crowd this sanctuary, and other voices will chant their 
glad songs of thanksgiving; another preacher will extol 



222 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

the yet greater glories of Loyola College, already clearly 
foreshadowed in its wise administration; but the work 
will have been the same: fifty more years — a century in 
all — of labor and of love, in order that the youth com- 
mitted to its care "may know the one true God, and 
Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ," our Lord. 

When the services were concluded, the clergy, alumni, 
and students returned in procession from the Church to 
the College. At one o'clock the clergy and alumni 
were the guests of the Faculty at dinner in the College 
gymnasium, which had been tastefully decorated for the 
occasion. Informal speeches were made by His Emi- 
nence, Cardinal Gibbons, the Reverend President of the 
College, Rev. Cornelius Gillespie, S.J., and Rev. Patrick 
J. Dooley, S.J., former Prefect of Studies and Discipline 
at Loyola. His Eminence referred in terms of high 
praise to the celebration of the morning — the ceremonies, 
the music, and the sermon. He also expressed his 
especial pleasure at beholding the religious, the secular 
clergy, and the laity united in such friendly relations. 
" This," His Eminence remarked, " is as it should be: 
for while these three elements of the Catholic body are 
combined in close union for the defence and advance of 
religion, they will form a triple cord which can not be 
broken." 



PRESENTATION OF "AACBETH." 



On Thanksgiving evening, at 8 o'clock, Shakespeare's 
tragedy of "Macbeth" was presented in the College Hall 
by the alumni and students, under the direction of Mr. 
William D. Kean, S.J. The audience representing the 
leading Catholic families of Baltimore completely over- 
taxed the seating capacity of the Hall, which is one 
of the largest in the city. The staging of the play was 
excellent. Before the curtain rose on the opening scene 
Mr. James L,. Kearney, A.M. ('98), in a brief prologue 
set forth the nature and advantages of dramatics as an 
instrument of education and culture, outlining distinctly 
the place and importance of the drama in the curriculum 
of a Jesuit college, and rehearsing its history and 
development up to the present day. 

The following is the cast of characters: — 

Characters of the Pi,ay. 

Duncan, King of Scotland, George E. Duering, ex. '99 

Malcolm, \ Sqqs q{ Duncan> (Joseph J. Zimmerman, 1900 

Donalbain, j (J. Leo Barley, '06 

Macbeth, General of Duncan's Army, E. Gilbert O'Connor, '04 

Lulach, Stepson of Macbeth, William A. Storck, '05 

Macduff, } (Joseph A. Herzog, '99 

•d f Generals of Duncan's Army, i T T t> » 

Banquo, \ ■" (J. Leo Brown, ex. '02 

First Witch, Robert E. Greenwell, '04 

Second Witch, John J. Murphy, '03 

Third Witch, Edward H. Burke, '06 

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Noblemen of Scotland, 



Rosse, 

Lennox, 

Sergeant, 

Seyton, 

Porter, 

Fleance, Son of Banquo, 

Doctor, 

First Murderer, 

Second Murderer, 

Servant, 

Apparition of Child, 

Pages, 



[Leo R. O'Brien, ex. '04 
\W. Howard Gahan, '05 
John A. Shea, '04 
Richard J. Henritze, '03 
William F. Braden, '04 
Ronald A. Millar, Prep. '05 
Joseph M. Kelly, '05 
Thomas J. Toolen, '06 
Charles B. Whettle, '04 
John J. Smyth, '05 
Edward K. Hanlon, Prep. '06 
Frederick Lee and Vachel J. Brown, Jr., Prep. '06 
Lords, Soldiers, Etc., by the Students. 



A second presentation of the play was given on the 
evening of Friday, November 28, before an audience 
scarcely less numerous than that which had witnessed 
the first performance on the day preceding. With this 
second production of ' ' Macbeth ' ' the celebration of the 
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of L/Oyola College 
came to a close. 



In conclusion, the College Faculty can not but feel 
grateful for the frequent and earnest manifestations of 
interest and good-will on the part of educators and 
friends, both in the city and at a distance, which have 
made them feel more strongly than ever that their efforts- 
in the great cause of Christian, Catholic education are 
neither unknown nor unappreciated. May the same 
generous encouragement ever help Loyola College to be 
faithful to her high trust. 



APPENDIX. 



PRESIDENTS. 

Rev. John Early, S.J i852-'s8 

Rev. William F. Clarke, S.J. . • . . i8s8-'6o 

Rev. Joseph O'Callaghan, S.J. . . 1860-63 

Rev. Anthony Ciampi, S.J. . . . i863-'66 

Rev. John Early, S.J i866-'7o 

Rev. Edward Henchy, S.J 1870-' 71 

Rev. Stephen A. Kelly, S.J. . . . 1871-77 

Rev. Edward A. McGurk, S.J. . . . i877-'85 

Rev. Francis Smith, S.J. . . . 1885-V 

Rev. John A. Morgan, S.J. . . . i89i-'oo 

Rev. William P. Brett, S.J. . . . 1900-01 

Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J 1901 



PREFECTS OF STUDIES. 

Rev. James A. Ward, S.J i852-'55 

Rev. Charles F. King, S.J. . ■ . i855-'s6 

Rev. James A. Ward, S.J i856-'57 

Rev. Charles F. King, S.J. . . . i857-'6o 

Rev. Patrick Forhan, S.J i86o-'64 

Rev. James J. Tehan, S.J. . . . i864-'68 

Rev. Edward D. Boone, S.J. . . . i868-'7o 

Rev. Stephen A. Kelly, S J i87o-'7i 

Rev. John B. Mullaly, S.J. . . . i87i-'72 

Rev. Stephen A. Kelly, S.J i872-'77 

Rev. James A. Ward, S.J. . . . 1 877-' 79 

Rev. Edward A. McGurk, S.J. . . i879-'8o 

Rev. James B. Becker, S.J. . . . i88o-'8i 

(227) 



228 LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

Rev. Edward A. McGurk, S.J. . .' . i88i-'82 

Rev. James A. Ward, S.J. . . . i882-'84 

Rev. David C. Daly, S.J i884-'87 

Rev. J. H. Sandaal, S.J i887-'88 

Rev. Francis Smith, S.J i888-'89 

Rev. Theobald M. McNamara, S.J. . . 1889-90 

Rev. William J. Tynan, S.J 1890-91 

Rev. Francis P. Powers, S.J. . . . i89i-'93 

Rev. Francis X. Brady, S.J i893~'95 

Rev. Theobald M. McNamara, S.J. . . 1895-98 

Rev. Martin I. Hollohan, S.J 1898-99 

Rev. John S. Hollohan, S.J. . . . i899-'oi 

Rev. Patrick J. Dooley, S.J. . . . i90i-'o2 

Rev. Philip M. Finegan, S.J. . . . 1902 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 229 



FACULTY. 



Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J., President. 

Rev. Philip M. Finegan, S.J., Vice-President. 

Rev. F. X. Brady, S.J., Chaplain. 

Rev. M. J. Byrnes, S.J., Secretary. 

Rev. William H. Sumner, S.J., Treasurer. 

Rev. Joseph M. Ardia, S.J., Emeritus Professor of 
Philosophy. 

Rev. Wm. J. Duane, S.J., Professor of Metaphysics. 

Mr. Henry W. Mclaughlin, S.J., Professor of Chemis- 
try. 

Rev. John J. Ryan, S.J., Professor of Mechanics. 

Dr. Martin A. O'Neill, Lecturer in Physiological 
Psychology. 

Rev. James J. Casey, S.J., Professor of Rhetoric. 

Rev. Miles A. McLaughlin, S.J., Professor of Poetry. 

Rev. Joseph M. Ziegler, S.J., Lecturer in Freshman 
Class. 

Mr. John J. Toohey, S J., Librarian. 

Rev. John S. Keating, S.J., Instructor in Latin and 
Greek. 

Mr. Joseph Kohlrieser, S.J., Professor of German. 

Mr. William Stinson, S.J., Instructor in Latin and 
Greek. 

Mr. William D. Kean, S.J., Professor of Elocution. 

Mr. James L. Kearney, A.M., Instructor in English 
and Latin. 

Mr. George B. Reynolds, M.D., Attending Physician. 



230 



LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



FOUNDED PROFESSORSHIP. 

The Carr Professorship founded by Mary Virginia 
Sims Carr. 



FOUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS. 



SCHOLARSHIP. 

The Cardinal 
The Eoyola 
The Johnson 
The Andrews 
The Danahan 
The Maryland 
The Rhetoric 
The Martin 
The Barnum 
The Whiteford 
The Bannon 
The St. Ignatius 
The Riordan 
The Whelan 
The Xavier 
The Milholland 
The Sodality, in 
The Flood 
The St. Aloysius 



FOUNDER. 

His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons 

Miss Maria Mactavish 

Miss Sarah Johnson 

The Misses Andrews 

Thomas N. L,anahan 

Miss Mary Abell 

George C. Jenkins 

Miss Winifred Martin 

Miss Annie Barnum 

Mrs. Celinda Whiteford 

A Friend 

A Friend 

Timothy Riordan 

Thomas A. Whelan 

Friends 

Miss Rose Milholland 

Memory of Rev. Francis A. Smith, S.J. 

Miss Margaret Flood 

through Rev. John A. Chester, S.J. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



231 



FOUNDED MEDALS. 



MEDAL. 

The Mactavish 
The Whelan 
The Ryan 
The Jenkins 
The Whiteford 
The Lee 
The Murphy 
The Grindall 
The Myers 
The McNeal 
The Susan Murphy 
The Carrell 



FOUNDER. 

Miss Maria Mactavish 

Thomas A. Whelan 

Rev. AbramJ. Ryan 

Austin Jenkins 

Mrs. Celinda Whiteford 

Mrs. Josephine Lee 

John Murphy 

Dr. Charles S. Grindall 

William P. Myers 

Joseph V. McNeal 

Dr. Francis P. Murphy 

The Misses Jenkins 



232 



LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



ANNUAL REGISTRATION 



i852-'53 
i853"'54 
i854-'55 
i8 5 5-'56 
i856-'57 
i857-'58 
i8 5 8-' 59 
i859-'6o 
i86o-'6i 
i86i-'62 
i862-'63 
i863-'64 
i864-'65 
i865-'66 
i866-'67 
i867-'68 
i868-'69 
i869-'70 
i87o-'7i 
i87i-'72 
i872-'73 
i873-'74 
i874-'75 
i8 75 -'76 
i876-'77 



No. Of 




No. of 


Students. 


Year. 


Students. 


9 


l877-'78 


IO4 


I30 


i878-'79 . 


IOI 


145 


i879-'8o 


108 


157 


i88o-'8i . 


IO4 


155 


i88i-'82 


I IO 


146 


i882-'83 . 


IOI 


131 


i883-'84 


118 


114 


i884-'85 . 


136 


IOI 


i885-'86 


149 


115 


i886-'87 . 


120 


IO8 


i887-'88 


119 


127 


i888-'89 . 


114 


133 


i889-'90 


109 


167 


i890-'9i 


129 


I92 


i89i-'92 


203 


160 


i892-' 9 3 . 


219 


141 


i893-' 9 4 


213 


IO8 


i8 9 4-' 9 5 . 


242 


158 


i8 95 -' 9 6 


200 


122 


i896-'97 . 


162 


I40 


i897-'98 


. 134 


138 


i898-'99 . 


178 


146 


1 899-1900 


210 


I20 


1900-1901 . 


211 


I09 


1901-1902 


166 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



233 



STUDENTS OF LOYOLA WHO BECAME 
CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN. 

Diocesan Clergy. 

Rev. John A. Daly 

Rev. Peter Manning 

Rev. John D. Boland 

Rev. Edward F. Mickle 

Rev. W. S. Caughey 

Rev. Francis P. Doory 

Rev. William A. Fletcher, D.D. 

Rev. John A. Schmitt 

Rev. John J. Murray 

Rev. William T. Russell 

Rev. Thomas E. Stapleton 

Rev. Joseph A. Foley 

Rev. Lawrence J. McNamara . 

Rev. Denis C. Keenan 

Rev. George A. Kraft . 

Rev. Philip J. Walsh 

Rev. Thomas A. Walsh 

Rev. Louis J. O' Donovan . 

Rev. Patrick Gavan 

Rev. Edward J. Healy 

Rev. Thomas P. Griffin 

Rev. John J. Knell . 

Rev. Francis Wunnenberg 

Rev. Thomas G. Smyth 

Rev. John T. McElroy . 

Rev. Thomas J. Foley 



• 1855— I 


860 


1867—] 


868 


. 1867—] 


870 


1870—] 


871 


. 1866—] 


874 


1 874-] 


880 


. 1878—] 


883 


1878—] 


:88 3 


. 1878—] 


879 


1879-] 


880 


. 1879—] 


[881 


1881— 


[883 


. 1881— 


C885 


1881— 


[885 


. 1882— 


[887 


1883— 


[884 


. 1884— 


[886 


1884— 


1890 


. 1885— 


[886 


1885— 


1891 


. 1886— 


[890 


1886— 


[888 


. 1887— 


1890 


1887— 


1891 


. 1887— 


1893 


1887— 


1895 



234 



LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



Rev. Hugh A. Curley 
Rev. James B. Kailer 
Rev. Charles J. Trinkaus 
Rev. Edward P. Adams 
Rev. August M. Mark 
Rev. James W. Smyth 
Rev. John M. McNamara 
Rev. William A. Toolen 



888—1891 
888—1889 
888—1893 
890 — 1896 
891—1896 
891—1896 
891 — 1897 
891 — 1897 



Regular Clergy. 



Rev. William Tewes, C.SS.R. . 


. 1872—] 


873 


Rev. Ferdinand H. Sturm, C.SS.R. 


1 881— ] 


882 


Rev. Frederick J. Jung, C.SS.R. 


. 1882—] 


884 


Rev. Alphonsus L,. Hild, C.SS.R. 


1884—] 


886 


Rev. Joseph A. Eorenz, C.SS.R. 


. 1885—] 


886 


*Rev. Richard H. Albert, CM. . 


1875—] 


876 


Rev. William J. Barnwell, CM. 


• 1877—] 


:8 79 


Rev. Bart. J. A. Randolph, CM. 


1882 — ] 


[887 


Rev. Carroll DeS. Rosensteel, CM. . 


. 1891 — I 


[893 


Rev. Michael J. Byrnes, S.J. . 


1855—1 


[858 


Rev. John J. Ryan, S.J. . 


• I8 55 —: 


1857 


Rev. Patrick Forhan, S.J. 


1855— 


t859 


Rev. Henry J. Shandelle, S.J. . 


. 1862—: 


[865 


Rev. Jerome J. Daugherty, S.J. . 


1863— 


1865 


Rev. Joseph I. Ziegler, S.J. 


. 1866— 


[869 


Rev. Edward X. Fink, S.J. . 


1866— 


[872 


Rev. Samuel Cahill, S.J . 


. 1867— 


[868 


Rev. Francis J. Barnum, S.J. 


1 864— 


[868 


Rev. Raphael V. O'Connell, S.J. 


. 1869— 


[870 


Rev. V. Howard Brown, S.J. 


1872— 


[876 


* Deceased. 





HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



235 



Rev. Joseph V. Schmidt, S.J. 
Rev. Eugene DeL. McDonnell, 
Rev. W. G. Read Mullau, S.J. 
Rev. A. J. Elder Mullan, S.J. 
Rev. James F. Dawson, S.J. 
Rev. Albert G. Brown, S.J. . 
Rev. Francis M. Connell, S. J. 
Rev. J. Brent Matthews, S.J. 
Rev. Charles W. Raley, S.J. 



. 


. 1873— 1877 


S.J. 


1874— 1883 


. 


. 1874— 1877 


. 


1878— 1882 




. 1879— 1882 


. 


1879— 1887 


. 


. 1879 — i882 


. 


1882— 1884 




. 1883— 1885 



ALUttNI. 



(*DECBASED AI<UMNI.) 



NAME. 

Aiken, William A. I., 
Baxley, Isaac R., 
Belt, W. Seton, 
Bernard, Alfred D., 
*Bevan, James H., 
Bevan, William F., 
Bize, Louis A., 
*Bogue, Robert J., 
Boland, Frank A. K., 
Boiling, George M., 
Bouchet, Charles J., 
Boyd, J. Aloysius, 
Brady, George M., 
Brady, Thomas E., 
*Brand, Thomas J., 
Brandt, John H., 
Brent, Charles V., 
Brown, Albert G., 
Brown, George M., 
Brown, Lawrence A., 
Burke, Richard, 
Calahan, Peter A., 
Carr, Robert H., 
Carroll, James J., 
Carroll, William J., 



A. B. 


A. M. 


OCCUPATION. 


I869, 




Engineer. 


1868, 




Author. 


1893. 




Farmer. 


1894, 


1853. 


Lawyer. 


1875, 




Business. 


1895, 




Physician. 


1864, 


1867. 




I894, 




Lawyer. 


189I, 




Professor. 


1887, 


189I, 


Lawyer. 


1896, 




Lawyer. 


I9OO, 




Law Student. 


I864, 




Lawyer. 


I869. 






1894, 


1895, 


Business. 


1854, 




Lawyer. 


I887, 




Clergyman, S.J 


I89I, 




Business. 


I9O2. 


1855. 




I899, 




Civil Engineer. 


1897, 


1899, 


Lawyer. 


1894, 


I895, 


Physician. 


1898, 




Lawyer. 


(236) 







HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



237 



NAME. 


A.B. 


A.M. 


OCCUPATION. 


Cassidy, Henry F., 


1893, 


1894, 


Physician. 


Chatard, J. Albert, 


1898, 




Med. Student. 


Coad, J. Francis, 


1886, 


I89I, 


Teacher. 


Cohn, Charles M., 


I897, 


1899, 


Lawyer. 


*Connor, John F., 


I893. 






Connor, Charles 0., 


I9OI, 




Business. 


Conroy, Edward C, 


I897, 


I898, 


Physician. 


Conway James I., 


I896, 




Scholastic, SJ. 


Coonan, John N., 


1859. 


1862, 


Physician. 


Copeland, John C, 


1895, 




Physician. 


Corrigan, J. Henry, 


1896, 


I897, 


Lawyer. 


Cotter, James D., 


1882, 


189O, 


Lawyer. 


Coyne, Daniel J., 


I898, 




Business. 


*Crowley, Robert A., 


i860. 






Crowe, Stephen, 


I894, 




Physician. 


*Curlett, John G., 


1854, 


I856, 




Daly, John A., 


i860, 


1862, 


Clergyman. 


Dammann, J. Frank, Jr., 


I9OO, 




Law Student. 


Dawson, James F., 


1882, 




Clergyman, S.J, 


Didusch, Joseph S., 


I898, 




Scholastic, S.J. 


Dildine, Frank C, 


1895, 




Physician. 


Donahue, Edward J., 


1892, 


I894, 


Business. 


Donnellan, James I., 


I898, 




Editor. 


*Dorsey, Thomas B., 


1869. 






Duhamel, William J. C, 




1855 


, Physician. 


Echle, Harry A. J., 


I9O2. 






*Egan, Andrew A., 


1858, 


I867. 




Englehardt, Andrew C, 


1899, 




Eccl. Student. 


Eschbaugh, Joseph, 




1853 


, Physician. 


Espin, J. Raphael, 


I854. 






Farrell, John J., 


1882, 




Business. 


*Fickey, William H., 


i860. 







238 



LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



NAME. 


A.B. 


A.M. 


OCCUPATION. 


Fink, J. Austin, 


1893, 


I894, 


Lawyer. 




*Fischer, John, 


1887, 




Physician. 




*Flaherty, Edward T., 


1875, 




Lawyer. 




Foley, Thomas J., 


1895, 


I9OO, 


Clergyman 


L. 


George, Isaac S., 


1901, 




Business. 




Gipprich, John L., 


1900, 




Scholastic, 


S.J 


Girouard, J. Arthur, 


1899, 




Physician. 




*Gleason, William E., 


1856, 


I858. 






Goldbach, Frank 0., 


1900, 




Scholastic, 


S.J 


Goldsmith, Robert H., 




1853, 


Physician. 




* Gross, John I. , 


1859. 


189O. 






Gurrey, James F., 


1897, 




Lawyer. 




Hack, Frederick H., 


1868, 


I87I, 


Lawyer. 




^Hamilton, Richard C, 


1868, 


I87I. 






Hargadon, I. Leo, 


1899, 




Scholastic, 


s.j 


Hastings, Louis M., 


1871. 








Haverkamp, John J., 


1897, 




Scholastic, 


S.J 


Hay don, William T., 


1897, 




Tutor. 




Healy, J. Stonewall, 


1894, 




Lawyer. 




Herzog, Joseph A., 


1899, 




Business. 




Higgins, James, 




1854, 


Physician. 




Hill, Alexander, 


1871, 


l8QO, 


Physician. 




Hill, Charles I., 


1900, 




Physician. 




Hoen, Albert B., 


1893, 


1894, 


Business. 




Hoen, Ernest A., 


1870, 




Business. 




Hoffmeister, Edward, 


1897, 




Dentist. 




Homer, Charles C, 


1892, 




Banker. 




Homer, Francis T., 


1892, 




Lawyer. 




Hopkins, John T., 


1887. 








Jacobi, Joseph B., 


1900, 




Teacher. 




*Jenkins, Thomas C, 




I854. 






Jones, William E., 


1894, 




Physician. 





HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



239 



NAME. 

Judge, Joseph C, 
Kearney, James L-, 
Kelly, Charles M., 
Kennedy, Charles J., 
Keown, Thomas W., 
*Kerney, Martin J., 
Kunkelman, D. R., 
*Lacey, Robert E-, 
Lane, John A., 
Lawler, Jeremiah P., 
Leahy, James P., 
Lee, Charles S., 
Leimkuhler, George H., 
Lightner, Harry O., 
Lloyd, Thomas P., 
Lowe, Thomas F., 
Luf burrow, Charles B., 
Madigan, Herman T., 
Magruder, Caleb C, 
Magruder, Mercer H., 
Mark, August M., 
Mc Adams, Edward P., 
*McCambridge, John A., 
McCarthy, John P., 
McDonald, Donald F., 
McElroy, John T., 
McFee, John R., 
*McGirr, Francis A., 
McKenna, William T. W. 
McLaughlin, Andrew B., 
McLaughlin, Edward A., 
McManus, John H., 



A.B. 


A.M. 


OCCUPATION. 


I896, 


I898, 


Lawyer. 


1896, 


1898, 


Teacher. 


1895. 


I898, 


Lawyer. 


1896. 






1895, 


1854. 


Physician. 


I9OO, 




Physician. 


1895. 






1886, 




Business. 


1895, 


I897, 


Physician. 


!895. 




Civil Engineer 


1892, 




Business. 


1897, 


1898, 


Business. 


1895, 




Physician. 


1897, 




Physician. 


1898, 




Physician. 


1896, 




Physician. 


1890, 




Lawyer. 


1894. 


I898, 


Lawyer. 


1896, 




Lawyer. 


1896, 


I9OO 


, Clergyman. 


1896, 




Clergyman. 


1868. 






1896, 




Physician. 


1894, 




Physician. 


1893. 




Clergyman. 


1882, 




Lawyer. 


1856, 


I858 




1902. 






1856, 


1858 


, Architect. 


1873. 




Lawyer. 


1899, 




Student. 



240 



LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



NAME. 

McNally, Bernard A., 
McNamara, John M., 
McNeal, J. Preston, 
McNulty, William F., 
*McPherson, Maynard, 
*McSherry, Richard, 
* Merrick, Richard T., 
Milholland, Arthur V., 
Milholland, Edward F., 
Milholland, Edward V., 
Milholland, Francis X., 
Miller, William P., 
Milot, Wilfred, 
Mooney, Joseph A., 
*Mitchell, James E., 
Morfit, Charles M., 
Mullin, Michael A., 
Mullin, J. Cluskey, 
Murphy, Francis P., 
Murphy, J. Edwin, 
Murphy, James R., 
Neuman, Joseph A., 
Neale, William B., 
Nooney, Austin D., 
Norman, Hugh A., 
*0'Donnell, Dominick A. 
O'Donnell, Thomas J., 
O'Neill, Martin J., 
Patterson, John S., 
Piquette, John P., 
*Placide, Henry A. F., 
Pound, John C, 



A.B. 


A.M. 


OCCUPATION. 


I9OO, 




Business. 


I897, 




Clergyman. 


I898, 


1899, 


Business. 


I9OI, 




Dental Student 


I856. 


I89O. 
I854. 




1862, 


I89O, 


Lawyer. 


1856, 


I858, 


Physician. 


I892, 


I896, 


Physician. 


I899, 


1900, 


Business. 




1897, 


Physician. 


I9OO. 






I9OO, 




Business. 


1862, 


I865, 


Physician. 


1859. 


I865, 


Physician. 


1859, 


1862, 


Lawyer. 


I892, 


I894, 


Lawyer. 


I869, 


I885, 


Physician. 


1893, 




Journalist. 




1873. 


Lawyer. 


I902. 






I894, 


I8 9 5, 


Lawyer. 


1892. 






I89I, 




Lawyer. 




1854, 


Physician . 


1899, 




Med. Student. 


I896, 


1898, 


Physician. 


1875, 




Civil Engineer. 


1868, 


I87I, 


Business. 


I858, 


1859. 




1897, 




Physician. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



24I 



NAME. 


A.B. 


A.M. 


OCCUPATION. 


Powers, John A., 


1898, 




Business. 


Preston, William, 


1895, 




Physician. 


*Quaid, Thomas S., 


1886. 






Quinlan, Oscar A., 


189O, 


1893, 


Lawyer. 


Riley, William T., 


1893, 


I894, 


Physician. 


Roche, J. B. Jonjon, 


1889, 




Lawyer. 


Ross, J. Elliot, 


1902. 






Rosensteel, Francis G., 


1897, 




Business. 


Ryan, Timothy, 


1900. 






Rytina, Anton G., 


1901, 




Med. Student. 


*Sappington, Ambrose L. 


, 1870. 






Seager, Edward G., 


1901, 




Civil Engineer 


Seeberger, John F., 


1896, 




Business. 


Shriver, Alfred J., 




I894, 


Lawyer. 


Shriver, Edward J., 


1894, 




Business. 


Shriver, MarkO., 


1902. 






Smith, Mark J., 


1896, 




Scholastic, S.J. 


Storck, Herman I., 


1897, 




Scholastic, S.J. 


*Sullivan, Joseph D., 


1862. 






*Sullivan, Thomas E., 


1858, 


1859. 




Surber, Alva C, 


i895, 




Physician. 


Tiernan, Charles B., 


1858, 


1859, 


Lawyer. 


Toolen, William A., 


1897, 




Clergyman. 


Tracy, CoyleJ., 


1895, 


1896, 


, Physician. 


Trinkaus, Charles J., 


!893, 


I9OO, 


, Clergyman. 


Tyson, William J., 


1859. 






*Van Bibber, John P., 


1868, 


1871 


, Physician. 


Wagner, Augustine D., 


1870. 






Warner, George, 


1853- 






Warner, William A., 


1853. 


1856 




Weiler, Edward A., 


1901, 




Med. Student. 


* Williams, Lloyd W., 


1870. 







242 



LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



NAME. 

Wess, Bernard J., 
Williams, Thomas M., 
Wilson, Robert K., 
Wilson, Thomas A., 
Woodside, Frank P., 
Zimmerman, Joseph J., 



A.B. A.M. OCCUPATION. 


I 9 OI, 


Med. Student. 


I869. 




1864, 


Business. 


I864, 


Business. 


I87I, 


Business. 


i goo, 


Business. 



DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY. 



Kelly, Charles M., 


1899, 


Lawyer. 


Penniman, William B., 


1897, 


Chemist. 


Schwartz, William R., 


1894. 




Tonry, William S., 


1893. 


Chemist. 



BACHELORS OF PHILOSOPHY. 



Brady, John J., 


1898, 


Eccl. Student 


Brandt, John H., 


1893, 


Business. 


Corrigan, J. Henry, 


1895, 


Business. 


Fleetwood, Andrew J., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Henderson, Thomas M., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Ingersol, Wilfred K., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Lightner, Henry 0., 


1895, 


Physician. 


McCarthy, John T., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Miller, Thomas R., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Palmer, Charles A., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Reinert, Emil G., 


1895, 


Physician. 


Taylor, Robert S., 


1895, 


Physician. 



DOCTOR OF SCIENCE. 
Stuart, Stanley M., 1897, Physician. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



BACHELORS OF SCIENCE. 



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Hill, Ernest M., 1895, 

Leahy, James P., 1895, 

Mayo, Harry N., 1895, 

McCaskell, Jaspar A., 1895. 

Mo wry, John J., 1900. 

Mules, Nathan C, 1895, 

O'Neill, John H. W., 1900, 



Business. 
Civil Engineer. 
Physician. 



Business. 
Physician. 



HONORARY DEGREES 
CONFERRED BY THE COLLEGE. 



DOCTORS OF LAWS. 


Gans, Edgar H., 


1899, 


Lawyer. 


Heuisler, Charles W., 


1902, 


Lawyer. 


Knott, A. Leo, 


1 891, 


Lawyer. 


*McSherry, Richard, 


1894. 




Milholland, Arthur V., 


1894, 


Lawyer, 


Mullin, Michael A., 


1891, 


Lawyer, 


O'Brien, William J., Sr. 


1902, 


Lawyer, 


Whelan, Thomas A., 


1891, 


Lawyer 



DOCTOR OF LETTERS. 
Isaac R. Baxley, 1902, Author. 



MASTERS OF ARTS. 



Biedler, 


Hampson H. , 


1898, 


Physician. 


Boland, 


John D. , 


1900, 


Clergyman 


Brenan, 


Matthew S., 


1902, 


Business. 


Cathell, 


William T., 


1896, 


Physician. 



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LOYOLA COLLEGE. 



Dinneen, John H. , 
Doory, Francis, 
Friedenwald, Julius, 
Grindall, Charles S., 
Guy, George, 
Hill, Charles G., 
*Kahler, Charles F., 
McCann, Walter E., 
McDevitt, Edward P., 
McShane, James F., 
Nagengast, Henry, 
Naulty, William K., 
Penniman, William B. D., 
*Rohe, George H., 
Ross, Frank Ward, 
Shearer, Thomas I,., 
Stapleton, Thomas E., 
Street, David, 
Woodruff, Charles S., 



1900 


lawyer. 


1902 


Clergyman 


1896 


Physician. 


1896 


Dentist. 


1897 


Leisure. 


1898 


Physician. 


1895 




1894 


Journalist. 


1894 


, Physician. 


1894 


, Physician. 


1898 


Clergyman 


1902 


Lawyer. 


1896 


Physician. 


1895. 




1896 




1902 


, Physician. 


1901 


Clergyman 


1894 


Physician. 


1902 


t Physician. 



BACHELOR OF ARTS. 
Gallery, William J., 1894, Business. 



DEGREES CONFERRED 

BY 

LOYOLA COLLEGE. 

1852 — 1902. 



In Course. 

Doctors of Philosophy, ... 4 

Bachelors of Philosophy, . . . 12 



Doctor of Science, ... 1 

Bachelors of Science, .... 7 



Masters of Arts, .... 69 

Bachelors of Arts, . . . . 177 



Honorary Degrees. 

Doctors of Laws, ... 8 

Doctor of Letters, .... 1 

Masters of Arts, . . . . 23 

Bachelor of Arts, .... 1 

Total, .... 303 

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COMMITTEES IN CHARGE OF THE JUBILEE 
CELEBRATION. 

General Executive Committee. 
Rev. John F. Quirk, S.J., Chairman ex officio. 
Mr. Arthur V. Milholland. Mr. J. Austin Fink. 
Mr. Charles B. Tiernan. Mr. Francis G. Rosensteel. 
Mr. Charles M. Kelly. Mr. Francis T. Homer. 

Mr. Alfred Jenkins Shriver. Mr. James E. Kearney. 
Mr. James I. Donnellan. Mr. J. A. Wilson Carroll. 
Mr. Frederick H. Hack. Mr. J. Francis Dammann, Jr. 
Mr. John S. Patterson. Dr. Charles S. Woodruff. 

Mr. Matthew S. Brenan. 

Banquet Committee. 
Mr. J. Austin Fink, Chairman. 
Mr. John S. Patterson. Mr. Francis T. Horner. 

Mr. Matthew S. Brenan. 

Committee on Speeches. 
Mr. Arthur V. Milholland. Mr. Michael A. Mullin. 
Mr. Alfred Jenkins Shriver. Mr. Charles B. Tiernan. 

Committee on Press. 

Mr. James I. Donnellan. Mr. Edward F. Milholland. 

Mr. J. Edwin Murphy. 

Reception Committee for Pontifical Mass. 

Mr. J. Preston McNeal, Chairman. 

Mr. Francis X. Milholland. Mr. George M. Brady. 

Mr. Howard Ford. Mr. Joseph Smith. 

Mr. Thomas A. Whelan, Jr. 

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Reception Committee for "Macbeth." 

Mr. Charles M. Kelly, Chairman. 
Mr. James L. Kearney. Mr. J. A. Wilson Carroll. 
Mr. J. Francis Dammann Jr. Mr. Joseph C. Judge. 
Mr. Isaac S. George. 

Committee on Decorations. 

Mr. Charles J. Bouchet, Chairman. 
Mr. Hugh A. Norman. Mr. George Brown. 

Mr. Mark O. Shriver. 

Jubilee Debt Fund Committee. 

Mr. Francis T. Homer, Chairman. 
Mr. George C. Jenkins. Mr. Edgar H. Gans. 
Mr. Thos. L. Shearer, M.D. Mr. Thos. W. Jenkins. 
Mr. J. V. McNeal. Mr. Chas. S.Woodruff, M.D. 

Mr. George May. Mr. Charles B. Roberts, Jr. 

Mr. Thomas A. Whelan. 



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